Word: matters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...citations against General Motors strikers were ignored at the Governor's order in 1937, testified with much heat. Whereupon Representative Harold G. Mosier of Ohio, who was defeated by C. I. O. pressure in the recent Democratic primary, addressed the judge: ''Let's get this matter straight. Just to show there was no politics in it, Governor Murphy is a Democrat and you are a Democrat.'' "I am not," cried Judge Gadola. "I am a Republican! Until this New Deal coattail parade started, there wasn't a Democratic judge in Michigan...
...Senate last week got a letter from A.F. of L. President William Green. Subject: NLRB's Donald Wakefield Smith. Incumbents were informed that A.F. of L. opposes the reappointment of Mr. Smith to the Labor Board. Candidates were pointedly asked to state their positions on the matter before election day. First to respond was New York's John Lord O'Brian, Republican candidate for the Senate, who promised to vote against Donald Wakefield Smith. Said Candidate O'Brian: "Members of every board exercising discretionary or judicial powers should be wholly unbiased, impartial, and independent of outside...
Meanwhile, Czechoslovak-Hungarian negotiations over the question of secession by Prague of Slovakian but not Ruthenian territory to Budapest concluded last week with an agreement to let the matter be arbitrated jointly by Germany and Italy. The German Foreign Minister, onetime Wine & Spirits Salesman Joachim von Ribbentrop, went to Rome to design the basis for this arbitration with Benito Mussolini, onetime hod carrier...
Last week in Washington was held the 25th annual congress of the New Thought Alliance, an extraordinary federation of Christian societies which, unlike Christian Science churches, believe in the reality of matter, take only the Bible as their revelation, maintain preaching ministries, accept ''love offerings" for their work...
...From the matter-of-fact voice of the militia officer who said he was at the crater caused by the cylinder and had everything under control, to the plaintive gasp of the last radio operator calling into a void, the story and production had grip. But the only explanation for the badly panicked thousands-who evidently had neither given themselves the pleasure of familiarizing themselves with Wells's famous book nor had the wit to confirm or deny the catastrophe by dialing another station-is that recent concern over a possible European Armageddon has badly spooked...