Word: joined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Newshawks began guessing twice as hard when on his week-end yachting trip he was joined by Governor Murphy of Michigan who flew to join him on the Presidential yacht. On the endless list of Court possibilities drawn up by the quidnuncs of the press, the name of Frank Murphy stood beside such others as Solicitor General Stanley Reed, Federal Judges Sam Gilbert Bratton (onetime U. S. Senator from New Mexico), Joseph C. Hutcheson Jr. of Houston, Texas, Florence Allen of Columbus, Law Professors Felix Frankfurter of Harvard, Lloyd Garrison of Wisconsin...
...Once during Detroit's sit-down epidemic last winter, Thelma Goldman went to a nearby beauty shop, found the two attending operators eager to join a union. Explaining that U. A. W. was for automobile workers, not beauticians, Miss Goldman obligingly telephoned the local A. F. of L. headquarters to send up an organizer. Quite willing, the A. F. of L. man only wanted to know one thing: who owned the beauty shop. Proudly the beauticians told Miss Goldman...
First whisperings of a slipping Equity were heard in 1929 when President Gillmore descended upon Hollywood to persuade that still rambunctious community to join up with Equity. He returned to Broadway with no cinema contracts. It was not until in 1933 that Hollywood, by then feeling public stirrings of social-consciousness, formed a haphazard Screen Actors Guild which, like Equity, received its charter from American Federation of Labor through a loose-knitted "International" organization called Associated Actors & Artistes of America (A. A. A. A.) Not even Equity members were sure whether it was victory or a concession when Gillmore thereupon...
...After Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden had said in the House of Commons last week: "If we will not join an international bloc against Communism-and we won't -neither will we join an international bloc against Fascism," Dictator Mussolini newsorgans opined warily: "A new era of good feeling between Italy and Britain finally may be opening...
Next day Mr. Broun replied: "On the extraneous subject of Communism, I might reveal the fact that several years ago I promised my wife, Constantina Maria Incoronata Fruscella, that I would never join the Communist party unless I joined the Catholic Church within the same week. I imagine that probably I will not ever be admitted to either." Mr. Broun said the main objective of the Guild is to stay in the C. I. O., added that "Mr. Green is the greatest single obstacle in the path of the labor movement. . . . The stone must be rolled away...