Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Detroit meeting was not, however, Priest Coughlin's first encounter with a large audience-in-the-flesh. Year ago at Des Moines he addressed the Farmers' Holiday Association. In November 1933, in Manhattan's Hippodrome he spoke to 7,000 people assembled by members of the Committee for the Nation (inflation), told them to "stop Roosevelt from being stopped...
Three years ago Milo Reno, Des Moines farmer-insurance man, made a national stir when his Farmers' Holiday Association began blockading Midwestern cities by barring produce trucks and trains. Since then, though his fame has waned, he still puts on a good show for his followers. Last year at their annual meeting in Des Moines he had Priest Coughlin as speaker. This year he invited Huey Long, Governor Olson of Minnesota. Governor Talmadge of Georgia and again Priest Coughlin. Had Mr. Reno got them all he would have had an all-star cast for a Third Party Follies...
...Holiday Farmers shouted, stamped...
Liberals point most angrily to Neylan's behavior in last year's San Francisco strike. Called back from a Honolulu holiday by jittery publishers, Neylan whipped them into a "law-&-order" coalition with himself as supreme dictator. Taking their orders from him, Hearstpapers and rivals alike followed a uniform editorial policy of attacking the strikers as "revolutionists." During the fight General Hugh Johnson arrived on the scene, began loudly to lecture the publishers on the rights of Labor. When the ex-cavalryman had reached the height of his oratory, the ex-teamster roared between glittering teeth...
...publicity, Amelia Earhart Putnam set out from Los Angeles one day last week to fly nonstop to Mexico, D. F. (1,700 mi.). The prospect of a visit from the world's No. 1 woman aviator so excited Mexicans that most Government employes were given a holiday, a special postage stamp issue was arranged, and swarthy Foreign Minister Emilio Fortes Gil prepared to greet the lady in the name of the Republic...