Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Delaney, who is on the boards of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and of the National Lawyers' Guild, which is currently engaged in legal action to stay off the Attorney General's list of subversive organizations, expressed disappointment at the small number of Negroes in the audience. "I would have liked to see more interest and less fear on the part of the Negro students hero," he stated...
...when he charged that "it is about time Harvard clean house" and stop "encouraging and playing host to the Communist Party." He made these statements in a letter protesting Harvard's granting permission for a student-sponsored talk by Osmund Fraenkel, Vice-President of the National Lawyers Guild. He urged the Law School to "take action now to disband" the Harvard Lawyers Guild, then on the School's promises...
Unfortunately, the businessman was too correct for comfort. Early last month, Chalmers, 46, called on Contractor Richard Cecil, a moving spirit in Benton City's clinic guild, and told him that the clinic was going broke. Reason: his patients paid their bills slowly, and Chalmers' long working days gave him no time for sending out reminders. Although he averaged $3,200 a month on paper, his patients were actually paying him only $1,200, some $1,000 less than he needed to meet his expenses...
...debts. At the first meeting, he raised over $600. Later meetings and a benefit supper got the total up to $1,200. Meanwhile, patients began to send in their checks−so well, at first, that Dr. Chalmers was able to pay back a $400 loan the clinic guild had given...
...business. Reason: labor trouble. L.P.A., set up in 1949 with money from the C.I.O., A.F.L. and some independent unions to counteract the Communist-line Federated Press, recently laid off one man from its Washington staff to keep down its $5,000-a-year deficit. But the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild, which represents L.P.A.'s employees, said no. The hard-pressed L.P.A. was forced to rehire the employee and pay him more than $2,500 in back wages. When L.P.A. could not meet its weekly payroll as a result, the entire staff went on strike and threw a picket line around...