Word: franked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With half the nation up to its ears in politics, Franklin Roosevelt last week played his familiar double role: half chief of the Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark...
Democrat Dies recently looked into the automobile sit-down strikes of 1937 in Michigan. The committee and its witnesses lit into C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America as Communist-ridden lawbreakers, into Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy as a weakling official who condoned Communist sit-down tactics...
...itself to be used in a flagrantly unfair and un-American attempt to influence an election. . . . On the threshold of a vitally important gubernatorial election, they permitted a disgruntled Republican judge, a discharged Republican city manager and a couple of officious police officers to make lurid charges against Governor Frank Murphy.'' Mr. Roosevelt then complimented the Governor for postponing forcible action while negotiations to end the sit-down strikes without bloodshed were in progress, added: "For that act, a few petty politicians accuse him of treason: for that act, every peace-loving American should praise...
...first inter-House debate of the year, a Winthrop team last night narrowly overcame an Eliot group by a judges' vote of 2 to 1. The debate, held in the Eliot House Common Room, featured Rupert Emerson, professor of Government, Frank Jourdan '41, John Donnell '40 of Winthrop, opposing John Gleason, instructor in History, Melvin H. Freedman '41, and Regnar E. Bird '41 of Eliot...
...Frank Harnden broke through a strong Tech defense to break a 3 to 3 tie and turn the tide ten seconds before the end of the last extra period in the Crimson booters' match with M. I. T. yesterday afternoon which put the Crimson soccer team at the top of the New England League, in a 4-3 victory...