Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commission and National Power & Light Co. for the city's purchase of Memphis Power & Light Co., for which Mayor Watkins Overton has offered $13,500,000, were taken out of the mayor's hands by an intransigent bloc of commissioners steered by Democratic Boss Ed Crump. Unless M. P. & L. cut its price for the electric system and agreed to cut gas rates as well, ultimatumed Boss Crump's men, "we are going to build...
...woods are full of Republican candidates," said Alf M. Landon last week before sailing from Manhattan as a delegate to the Pan-American Conference at Lima, "but here's a story for you. I think the outstanding Democratic candidate is the man [Herbert Henry Lehman] who has just been elected for the fourth time as Governor of the great State of New York. I don't see how the Democrats can pass up a man who has been elected Governor four times...
...their face these laws impose sacrifices which bear more heavily upon Labor than upon Capital. The businessman's side of the argument is, of course, that these laws are intended to redress some of the undue wealth-destroying laws which Labor won under the "New Deal" Cabinets of M. Léon Blum (TIME, June...
...M. Blum is No. 1 politically in the French Left. No. 1 in a trade-unionist sense is M. Léon Jouhaux, General Secretary of the French General Confederation of Labor, with 5,000,000 enrolled trade unionists-many not French-whom he has to try to keep behind him. This William Green or John L. Lewis of France (and neither cap quite fits Jouhaux) is nearer to "Moscow" than is M. Blum. Earthy, cigar-chewing, big-eating Léon Jouhaux is out for what he can get, whereas intellectual, nervous, lean Léon Blum is akin...
...signed his parchment. It was, of course, the Prime Minister who "advised" the Sovereign to demobilize the Fleet. His Majesty did so presumably because Mr. Chamberlain was satisfied, after talking in Paris with Premier Edouard Daladier (see p. 21), that this European emergency had ended. Officially this week, H. M.'s Government announced that Chamberlain & Halifax "plan" to visit Benito Mussolini in January 1939, unofficially that Halifax may go with the King to Canada in the spring...