Word: listings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...handed them before their novena begins. Favorite petitions are for good health, for employment, for souls in purgatory, but many a petitioner is interested in matters like the health of the Pope, world peace, success in studies, a happy marriage or happy death. According to last fortnight's list of petitions, more novena-makers are anxious to find a "Catholic Boy Friend" (377) than a "Catholic Girl Friend...
...ever afforded journalists the downright uncomfortable immediacy of the Chinese-Japanese 1937 conflict. The immediacy is substantiated by the casualty list...
...Press. But reporters were led in to hear a speech by Hartley W. Barclay, the Mill & Factory editor who defied a subpoena from the National Labor Relations Board last fortnight, which he maintained was a violation of the Freedom of the Press. Before Editor Barclay spoke, a list of newspapers and wire services represented was read off to the businessmen because: "No doubt you will want to get these papers and see how they treat our people." After the Barclay speech the reporters were led out again...
...much as an anti-picketing injunction. The manufacturers asked for the easing of Federal and State restrictions on the use of labor injunctions. They asked that the Byrnes Act be amended to ban interstate transportation of "strike-makers" as well as strike breakers. They asked that a long list of strikes be declared illegal, including sitdown strikes, general strikes, strikes for a closed shop or the checkoff, strikes where grievances have not been presented in advance, strikes accompanied "by continuous and systematic acts of violence and intimidation," strikes in violation of contracts, strikes "to prevent the use of materials, equipment...
...chosen." Moscow observers noted not only that 712 of 1,143 constituencies nominated Stalin for Parliament but most of them also went on to nominate as their candidates for parliament the Dictator's eleven most favored colleagues. From Leningrad to Vladivostok, from Samarkand to the Polar Cap this list of favorite candidates was repeated, in many cases in the following order: Premier Molotov; Heavy Industry Commissar Kaganovich; Defense Commissar Voroshilov; President Kalinin; Communist Party Central Committee Secretary Andreyev; Interior (Secret Police) Commissar Yezhov; Finance Commissar Chubar; Communist Party Central Executive Member Kosior; Leningrad Communist Leader Zhdanov; Vice Premier & Supply Commissar...