Word: l
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Homer Martin's one chance of survival outside both C. I. 0. and A. F. of L. is to sell his wobbly minority to automakers who, now that they must have some union, ask nothing more than an orderly one. For selling talk, Mr. Martin had his delegates pledge themselves to observe their contracts, keep out Communists, Nazis and Fascists, and debar all such gentry from office. In doing so Homer Martin alienated radicals who have stood loyally by him and supplied the bulk of his administrative brains...
...members, reportedly has a dues-paying membership of about 15,000. S. T. F. U. claims 35,000, concedes that no more than 3,000 can pay dues at any one time. To figures like these, and to troubles like S. T. F. U.'s, A. F. of L. points as evidence that C. I. 0. should grow up and heal its sores before it tries to make peace on its own terms...
...Corps to 6,000 planes, the Senate, at the behest of Wyoming's Harry H. Schwartz, voted to train Negroes in at least one school for Army fledglings. Behind Mr. Schwartz were flower-tongued Negro Edgar G. Brown of United Government Employes, Inc., Editor Robert L. Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, many another colored advocate of racial balance in the U. S. Army & Navy...
...newsmen did. The incident served as an illustration of how the British Government can get its own press to blow hot or cold as it desires, can often indirectly influence the press of other countries. Notable it was that last week U. S. pundits like Walter Lippmann, Edwin L. James, Dorothy Thompson, William Philip Simms, joined faraway Prime Minister Hertzog of South Africa in being optimistic about a Spring of Peace...
...weighs some 200 pounds less than European engines of the same design and power, has no counterpart in U. S. design. Jubilant Ranger engineers declared its principles were adaptable to bigger engines, refused to confirm a current report: that at its modest (100 employes) plant at Farmingdale, L. I., Ranger is already working on a new powerplant of more than 1,000 horsepower to compete with Allison...