Word: governors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President Maytag having displeased his workers with a 10% wage cut, the company has been deep in labor trouble since May, was in deeper than ever last week. And so were the union and all Newton. After persuading 350 sit-inners to surrender the plant, Iowa's Governor Nelson G. Kraschel proposed that they accept the cut and return to work, was promptly turned down by the union. At that, Newton officialdom and business went into action. Businessmen asked Sheriff Earl Shields to recruit 1,000 deputies, encouraged a back-to-work movement which by last fortnight claimed...
...this remarkable punishment as attorneys in Judge Fuller's courtroom, C. I. O.'s Carey appealed, chose imprisonment but was released on bond, announced: "I was faced with six months in jail . . . [or] a lifetime with my conscience. . . ." This week an arbitration board set up by Governor Kraschel proposed that Maytag take back all hands at full pay, pending negotiation. Maytag having refused, back-to-workers went back to work, strikers continued their strike...
After Senator Van Nuys opposed President Roosevelt's Supreme Court plan last year, he was singled out as Victim No. 1 for the great purge of the Democratic Party. Franklin Roosevelt said nothing publicly, but Mr. McNutt's obedient satellite, Governor Maurice Clifford Townsend of Indiana, announced it last July from the White House steps (TIME, July 26), repeated it last August at a powwow of Democratic editors in Indianapolis: "The people of our State will not tolerate . . . any one in public office who will not put his shoulder to the wheel and give his earnest support...
...Banker -Governor -Candidate Lehman did not reply to his President. But others looked up New York State's relief expenditures : included in the Roosevelt deficit of $94,428,496 was only $25,000,000 for Relief...
...Andrews Millikan, 70, at Rochester, Minnesota's Mayo Clinic, † from a gall-bladder ailment; Commander Joel Thompson Boone, U.S.N. Medical Corps, at San Diego's Naval Hospital, from an abdominal operation; Ice Skater Jack Dunn in Hollywood, from a streptococcic throat infection ; New Jersey's Governor A. Harry Moore in his Little White House at Sea Girt, N. J., from intestinal influenza...