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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Labor had the look of an errant youngster who suspects that pa was right. A. F. of L. and C. I. O., concluding their respective conventions in Cincinnati and San Francisco (TIME, Oct. 16), were a-twist with statutory cramps. Each had 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...
...Declined to wrap Franklin Roosevelt and his whole New Deal in a blanket endorsement, elected the Carpenters' arch-Republican William Hutcheson first vice president of A. F. of L...
...Tacitly rebuked William Green for pledging A. F. of L. to support the President's neutrality program. The convention approved cash & carry sales to warring nations, stayed neutral on repeal of the arms embargo...
...Ronald L. Olson (methodical, oldtime anthropologist) : "Interesting material, old jokes, detailed memory examinations...
Contrary to the reports in Boston papers, Ottawa was the center of yesterday's earthquake instead of the middle of the ocean, Dr. L. Don Leet, head of the Harvard seismograph station reported last night. Previously Dr. Leet had hazarded the guess that the center of the quake was in the ocean, but recent reports from other stations confirmed the fact that the worst tremors were somewhere in the vicinity of Ottawa...