Word: indiana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end the Act was denounced from within the committee itself. Indiana's Democratic Representative Glenn Griswold criticized the wage-fixing provisions as "far more riotous than the NIRA." Nor would friends of Secretary of State Hull's reciprocal trade treaties add peace to the scene at the bland suggestion of the Act's coauthor, Representative William Patrick ("Billy") Connery Jr. of Massachusetts. He suggested that the Labor Standards Board would be given permissive authority to increase import duties if increased U. S. labor costs led to threat of destructive foreign competition...
...Homer Martin felt he must save his union's face. He called for a mass meeting at Monroe of union men from Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. Mayor Knaggs, who already had a large part of his aroused constituents under arms, appealed vociferously to Governor Murphy for militia and State police to protect his city from the expected mob. The Governor finally arranged that the meeting should be held at a State park three miles from Monroe, promised to have 350 guardsmen on hand to keep the union men out of the anti-union town and also see that...
...Monroe. This really alarmed the Governors of the States concerned. The battle at Monroe had shown what might happen if citizens and unionists were permitted to fight it out. The prospect stirred two Governors who had previously kept their hands carefully in their pockets, into cautious action. In Indiana, Governor Clifford Townsend called meetings of steel operators and union leaders to see whether he could not settle the strike at Inland and Youngstown plants close to the Illinois line. This gesture accomplished nothing and Indiana's Governor pondered calling the Governors of Illinois, Michigan and Ohio to join...
Bliss Fund and University Fellowships, totalling $2,125, to Virgil A. Gould, of Buhl, Idaho; Arthur E. MacGregor 1G, of Needham; Mace E. Raymond, of Lafayette, Indiana; and Henry F. Wershing, of Fort Duchesne, Utah...
With only two games, Indiana on Wednesday and the Graduates Saturday, before the Yale encounters, the Crimson should be in top physical condition and able to start their best lineup: Colwell behind the plate, Lupien on first, Johns at second, Bilodeau at short, Grondahl in the hot corner, Frankie Owen in right, McTernen in center, and Shean covering the left garden...