Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Labor's top leaders continued to jockey for advantage and hold off peace between C. I. O. and A. F. of L., a small voice piped up from the ranks last week. At Sacramento, Calif., 27 A. F. of L. and six C. I. O. local unions got together in a United Labor Council. Purposes: to insure respect for each other's picket lines regardless of affiliation; to ask their national officers to heed Franklin Roosevelt's pleas for Labor peace...
...Michael Mullins Chowder and Marching Party will hold its annual conclave on the steps of Widenor this evening at umpty o'clock. The Grand Potentate from New York with the little round button on top will be present to add tone to the festivities...
...autonomous Slovak Government took occasion to discharge Czech (and Jewish) professors and officials in the Slovak area. "Slovakia for the Slovaks," was the slogan of a campaign which marked another big fissure in the disintegration of the State of Eduard Benes and Thomas Masaryk pulled but could not hold together...
...dislike of outside interference, they kept mum about their plans. At least two newspapers, the New York Times and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, knew what the three Friends were about, and kept mum too. But the Philadelphia Record got wind of the story, telephoned numerous Philadelphia Quakers, finally got hold of Quaker Jones on the Queen Mary. Despite his pleas, the Record splashed the story on its front page last week...
...American scientists . . . hold fast to their conviction, that . . . science is wholly independent of national boundaries and races and creeds and can flourish only when there is peace and intellectual freedom. ... It is in this light that we publicly condemn the fascist position towards science. The racial theories which they advocate have been demolished time and again. We need only point to the work of Heinrich Hertz in physics, Fritz Haber and Richard Willstatter in chemistry, Ludwig Traube, Paul Ehrlich and August Wassermann in biology and medicine, all German Jews and all empirical [observational and experimental] scientists. The charge that theory...