Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fattened on the Wagner Act; neither was ready to go all the way back to Sam Gompers and confess that what ailed them was an overdose of law. Both blamed the National Labor Relations Board for their gripes, each complained that craven administrators had favored the other. But angry John Lewis and his delegates came close to admitting that they knew the cause of the Labor pangs in C. I. O.'s belly. Said they: "Since the enactment of the [Wagner] Act organized Labor has been inclined to rely far too heavily upon the law. . . . This convention commends...
...Warmly approved John Lewis' cry: "War will not come because the Congress may juggle the words in the Neutrality Act. War for America will come only as a result of developing circumstances which convince the American people that there is no other alternative. If this be true . . . it is then futile and absurd for the Congress . . . and the population of the entire country to become confused and convulsed in a discussion of the varying definitions of actual and assumed neutrality. . . . No other citizen has knowledge which equals the President's knowledge of the facts which concern . . . peace...
...word in Texas last week was that President Roosevelt has picked a baby-kissin', snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man to replace Mayor Maury Maverick of San Antonio as front man for the New Deal forces working against John Nance Garner on his home base. This snuff-dippin', vote-gettin' man: Railroad Commissioner Gerald Anthony Sadler...
...deputy sheriffs routed 200 fashionable guests who were allegedly playing bingo and tango games, seized paraphernalia as evidence, let a pretty brunette go, arrested four men. A florid man named John F. Garrison identified himself as Chancellor of the Consulate, promised to appear in the Culver City justice court at week...
Skylark (by Samson Raphaelson; produced by John Golden) ushers in the season's first drawing-room comedy. It is a triangle play about the husband, the wife (Gertrude Lawrence) and the advertising agency that has the husband bewitched. Says the wife: Choose between me and your job. He chooses her, becomes her dream man again. Then he breaks his word and takes another job; but this time, for reasons Playwright Raphaelson keeps piggishly to himself, it's hip hip hooray with the wife...