Word: glasse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senator Glass, who since the death of Senator Fletcher has been senior member of the Senate Banking & Currency Committee with the right to become its chairman, made a difficult decision. Although banking has been his specialty for many years, he renounced his opportunity to become chief arbiter of future banking bills in order to retain his present chairmanship of the Appropriations Committee-and his hold on the New Deal's purse strings...
...crisis had come so swiftly that even C. I. O. leaders were left blinking. That the Committee was out to organize the historically unorganized automobile industry had been evident for weeks, as its affiliated United Automobile Workers and Federation of Flat Glass Workers unions harassed the industry's partsmaking flanks (TIME, Nov. 30 et seq.}. Last fortnight Leader Lewis, demanding collective bargaining, thundered an "ultimatum" at General Motors. But, occupied as he was with a national steel organizing campaign, an internecine fight with leaders of the American Federation of Labor and the possibility of having to lead...
...Senator Glass confesses that he got his Confederate heroes mixed. For General Jubal A. Early, read Colonel Lawrence Marye...
...time abroad and ultimately be given another Chinese Army under the Generalissimo. Joy in China at the happy ending of the crisis reached such transports that even that uncompromising teetotaler, "The Christian Marshal" Feng Yu-hsiang, announced as a matter of national moment, "I have drunk a full glass of wine, toasting the deliverance of the Generalissimo...
...long, successful career, Artist Copley never lacked money. Born when Boston was the most prosperous city in North America, his childish bent for drawing was encouraged by his stepfather, Schoolmaster Peter Pelham, whose shingle advertised: "Reading, Writing, Needlework, Dancing, and the Art of Painting upon Glass." Peter Pelham was also a mezzotint engraver of real ability, made able portraits of Cotton Mather and the rest of Boston's thundering divines. Young John Copley worked with him, was welcomed in Boston's best houses. At the age of 16 he was already known as a skillful portraitist...