Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote. Few Senators cared to fight the bill. Daniel Hastings of Delaware criticized it for what it did to labor minorities. Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland proposed to amend the bill by making it illegal for anyone-not merely employers-to coerce an employe to join or not to join any union. He was answered that such an amendment would "weaken the bill." Labor organizing not being a parlor game, the amendment would obviously have prevented the A. F. of L. from using some of its "strongest" arguments, would have given some employers a legal pretext for interfering with...
...soaring. The best pieces are "Chamber of Horrors" and "Kidnapped"; Kirstein is obviously strongly influenced by Spender and Auden, and that is a bad sign, one may venture to suggest, for there is no use or point in duplicating one's contemporaries, even if it seems heroic to join a swelling chorus when a duet or trio will quite suit the purposes...
...After a week of consultations with his father. Son James Roosevelt disposed of rumors that he might join the Presidential secretariat. The announcement from the White House explained that his New York & Boston jobs (insurance and politics) were too strenuous. Son James would therefore presently retire to the family estate at Hyde Park. There he would install a modern cost accounting system in the President's dairy, prepare a chart showing whether occasional experiments in the President's forest preserves could be made a continuous activity giving steady employment. Son James felt sure his insurance business would continue...
...basement were some 7,000 more who had paid to hear Priest Coughlin through loudspeakers, see him for a few minutes after the main show. In the streets some 5,000 lackpenny Clevelanders cocked their ears to loudspeakers. A handful of Socialists carrying placards urging people to join the Socialist Party rather than the National Union had their banners snatched out of their hands by mounted policemen. But vendors of plaster busts and photographs of the radio priest were unmolested...
...siding in Warsaw, by the strange stiffness of the top-hatted Poles. Foreign Minister Josef Beck explained that Pilsudski had a little hangover of influenza, proceeded to do the honors with a cold and abstracted air. Into this atmosphere Laval launched his strategic idea that Poland and Germany should join Russia in a consultative pact for non-aggression in Eastern Europe without mutual assistance guarantees. Beck, his mind on the cancer cells ravening in Pilsudski's stomach, was noncommittal...