Word: laboring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...look as rigid as his principles. The chief of these, public ownership of utilities, he has fought for ever since he worked his way to a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1911. While practicing law for such clients as Tacoma's Central Labor Council and the Port of Tacoma, Bone tried to clear the way for publicly owned utilities, using any political broom that came to hand. He has been a candidate on the Socialist, Triple Alliance, Farmer-Labor, Republican and Democratic tickets, a fact of which his opponents like to make capital...
...played his familiar double role: half chief of the Democratic Party, half Chief Executive. As a partyman he flared angrily at Congressman Dies for embarrassing faithful Frank Murphy's re-election campaign in Michigan (see p. 8); sent a message to Minnesota to help Governor Elmer Benson (Farmer-Labor) stem the onslaught of Liberal Republican Harold Stassen (see p. 10), another to Pennsylvania to help George Earle toward the Senate, another to California to help Sheridan Downey; interviewed a series of political callers including dark-skinned Publisher Robert Lee Vann of the Pittsburgh Courier, supposed mentor of Pennsylvania...
Bringing up the issue of the University's labor, troubles last Spring. Leo Moran, most vehement speaker of the evening said, "Dean Landis better clean up his own back yard before going down to Washington again, and Roosevelt, if he knew the facts, would be the first to tell Landis that very thing." Moran attacked the Harvard Employees' Representative Union as a company union, and stated that the University, in view of its labor policy, should be the last institution in the city to urge better civic administration...
...Labor and "youth-problem" issues will be discussed at a four-corner debate on the political situation sponsored by the Student Union in Emerson D this afternoon at 4 o'clock...
...finally rises and the play, which is the product of so much work, anxiety, and back-stage drudgery, goes on. And tonight is an auspicious one for the Harvard Debating Council when the curtain rises on inter-House debating. This too, is the product of months, even years of labor and promotion, particularly on the part of Lawrence Ebb, president of the council. It is the high-water mark of Harvard debate in the year that the latter has come into its own, with University sponsorship and an ambitious program of radio, intercollegiate, and intramural debate...