Word: laborer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...representative of the largest insurance company in the world, The Metropolitan, I arise in righteous wrath and indignation at the derision contained in your article under the heading of Labor, TIME...
...cynical over Mr. Roosevelt's moralizing. Republican National Chairman John D. M. Hamilton remembered occasions upon which Mr. Roosevelt had been glad to see parties scrambled: in Minnesota two years ago when the Democratic nominees for Governor and Senator were withdrawn by Jim Farley to let the Farmer-Labor candidates beat the Republicans; in Nebraska two years ago when Mr. Roosevelt, a Democrat, urged the re-election of Senator Norris, an Independent Republican, over a Democrat; in. Michigan, when Republican aid was sought in the primary to nominate Frank Murphy for Governor...
During this busy week Mr. Green was sought out by the "John L. Lewis of France," Léon Jouhaux of the potbelly and off-centre goatee, whose aggressive political unions are a great concern of Premier Edouard Daladier. M. Jouhaux, en route to an international labor conference called by the "John L. Lewis of Mexico," big-eared Vicente Lombardo Toledano, made a pilgrimage to Atlantic City to discuss with Mr. Green (who is boycotting the Mexico City conference as "communistic") the problems of Labor in relation to world peace and war. Not mentioned was the John L. Lewis...
...William Green's eyes, the main obstacle to his resuming his position as the topdog of U. S. Labor is the superior favor enjoyed by his enemy with the present President of the U. S. In spite of a long telegram which Mr. Green sent to Hyde Park outlining the A. F. of L.'s objections to the reappointment of Donald Wakefield Smith to the National Labor Relations Board, the President promptly did as he was requested not to do. Mr. Green was able to announce, however, that the President agreed with him in principle that the Wagner...
...more than half of the 180 warehouses in the San Francisco Bay area were closed, some 2,500 of the 8,000 Bridges Warehousemen were out of work and the hot car, having traveled over 220 miles, had become a major pawn in San Francisco's ever smoldering labor...