Word: l
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revealed last week that President Roosevelt last month pardoned, because of ill health, Broker William L. Jarvis of Newton and Scituate, Mass., who had served 15 months of a five-year prison term for fraudulent use of mails to sell stock. Broker Jarvis and four colleagues were SEC's first big captures...
...White House, tea became a New Deal question bee. Secretaries Hopkins, Wallace and Perkins were there; Robert Fechner (who promised the King a treatise on CCC), FHA's Stewart McDonald (who got on with the Queen immediately after telling her his family came from Skye). A. F. of L.'s William Green went (but C. I. O.'s John Lewis declined). Everyone was impressed by both the King's and the Queen's interest in U. S. housing. Mrs. Roosevelt wrote in her column: "It was interesting to me to find how understanding and sympathetic...
...recognition (but no closed shop) from the Briggs Manufacturing Co. in Detroit, called off a strike which had tied up Chrysler and Lincoln plants as well, by depriving them of Briggs auto bodies (TIME, June 12). Having just taken his minority U. A. W. back into A. F. of L., President Homer Martin thereupon displayed his muscle. He demanded that big General Motors recognize his union to the exclusion of C. I. O., called a strike in three G. M. plants and threatened more...
Told by newsmen that Columnist Westbrook Pegler had suggested he go back to work, Labor Martyr Tom Mooney brandished a paid-up A. F. of L. Molders Union card, snapped: "During eight years of that hell [22 years in San Quentin Prison] I peeled potatoes. . . . Maybe that writer of scurrilous stuff may classify what he does as work...
Inspired by a tract called "The First Dancing Lesson" (Leander Smith, 808 Avenue E., Council Bluffs, Iowa), and grged on by what they described as the "moral degeneracy" of the examination period, Clarence L. Alexander '40 Paul J. Goldheizer '40, and Joseph W. Barber '40, have begun an intensive campaign...