Word: generale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After expertizing at the Washington Conference on the Limitation of Armaments and after a grand tour of the East as Consul-General-at-Large, Nelson Johnson was called home again. On his way he stopped in Japan, just after the great Yokohama earthquake of 1923. Cardinal requisite of any foreign service diplomat is that he shall be able to write clearly, vividly, movingly. Of the earthquake Nelson Johnson reported: "I found Yokohama in ruins. I left it busy removing the last vestiges of the confused masses of brick, a city of small galvanized iron shops and houses looking...
Admiral Thomas C. Hart and Shanghai Consul General Clarence E. Gauss, who were about to leave on Admiral Hart's Flagship U. S. S. Augusta for Manila for talks with Commissioner Sayre. The subject: what should...
...unionists voted, 25,402 to 2,030, to make it a formal strike when & if their leaders wished. But only at the Dodge plant, in the seventh week, was a formal strike called. Why Peace? The bad news from Detroit had been like powder smoke to U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who was Michigan's "sitdown Governor." With Franklin Roosevelt, he talked over the enormous monetary and social losses, the discredit cast on Labor's political friends. C. I. O.'s Vice Presidents Philip Murray and Sidney Hillman got telephone calls from Mr. Murphy. To Detroit...
...continue to set production speeds without consulting the union-but gripes about speeds may be appealed to the grievance board. The union succeeded in throwing out the old, ineffective ban against any & all strikes, gave an absolute pledge not to sitdown, stayin, slowdown. On wages, the union asked a general 10?-per-hour boost for Chrysler's 58,000 workers, dropped to 5?, got 3? (plus additional raises for 5,000 in special classifications). Total annual wage increase: about...
...responsible union," said Mr. Keller. Contentedly, he sat down to play solitaire (see cut). Said Frank Murphy: "The public interest was thwarted. ... By whom? By all of us-government, industry and labor. . . . We can no longer go on with these conflicts and the loss inflicted on the general public...