Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a pretty threefold situation: 1) Expensively lodged in the Commodore, with his lawyers and lieutenants of the United Mine Workers, John L. Lewis was at a crucial point of his down & up career. The mine operators had refused to write into a new contract a guaranty that the...
Miners and operators alike knew what this meant: Franklin Roosevelt not only endorsed John Lewis' demands for a union shop*but invited operators and their district associations to break ranks, sign as a public duty. If they refused, the Administration would back John Lewis in the resultant war.
Milwaukee's Hoan. Socialist Daniel Hoan grew pungent about what would happen in Milwaukee if WPA stopped: "There would be parades of hungry people through the streets. And they would be headed by Communists; that's the kind of fellows, you know, that get into these movements, and...
He grew pungent also about turning relief back to the States: "I wouldn't want any Governor handling my funds, even if I were a Governor. It's too political. Governors always want to be Pres- idents. . . ." But Mayor Hoan, a Socialist whose boast is that his city...
Amarillo's Rogers. For four years the mayors have pictured their cities as poor relations, dependent on the U. S. Treasury, communities already at or near their legal debt limits and unable to cope alone with unemployment. A unique mayor last week was Ross D. Rogers of Amarillo, Tex...