Word: granted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 1936 when John L. Lewis set up the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, the moribund Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers had some 10,000 members and no important contracts. Working from a big modern office covering the entire 36th floor of Pittsburgh's Grant Building-a few floors above Ernest Tener Weir's anti-union National Steel Corp.-the S. W. O. C. has since then put on the most efficient organizing campaign in the history of U. S. labor. In 18 months it 1) opened company towns to union organizers, 2) jacked the Amalgamated...
Died. Kate Sturges Buckingham, 79, Chicago art patron, philanthropist; of heart disease; in Chicago. Of Miss Buckingham's numerous gifts to Chicago, most spectacular was $1,000,000 she gave in 1927 for the Clarence Buckingham Memorial Fountain in Grant Park, which she endowed...
...Matris (Way of the Mother)-in which the worshipers traverse a circuit of seven Stations of the Cross representing the seven sorrows of the Virgin.* The Via Matris cannot be used by any Catholic church without permission of the Servite Fathers who conceived it. However, they grant it readily, and last fortnight Chicago's St. Cecilia's Church planned to inaugurate similar novenas...
...faculty one evening last week, Canadian-born Dr. Stewart Grant Cole, president of Kalamazoo College and a one-time Baptist minister, announced that Canadian-born Economics Professor Carey K. Ganong was to be dismissed for "inefficiency" and failure to become a naturalized U. S. citizen, as is President Cole. As word of the dismissal spread through the college, indignant students quickly rounded up the band, paraded around the campus, were addressed at a rally by Dr. Ganong, who declared the college officials had given him no opportunity to defend himself. By dawn the 350 students had decided to strike. When...
...month railroad men and business leaders have almost unanimously maintained that the alternative to a rate rise is Government operation. Hearings before the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington by last week had become such a unanimous parade of evidence that almost everyone began to take it for granted that the ICC would certainly grant a substantial part of the rise. Railroad stocks climbed a little from their lows...