Word: membered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Witt. One of labor's safeguardians was Nathan Witt, 36, Secretary of the Board, an old employe, hardworking, father of two, conscientious. Artfully into the record Counsel Toland introduced a series of memos from Board Member Leiserson to Board Chairman J. Warren Madden. In them, Dr. Leiserson: 1) accused Mr. Witt of giving oral reports of cases differing from the record, complaining about "the usual irregularities in procedure characteristic of the Secretary's office"; 2) agreeing with Chairman Madden that the Universal Pictures case in which Mr. Witt was involved "smelled"; 3) protesting about Mr. Witt...
...Bold speeches were made against Soviet aggression, especially from those far removed from the Russian border. Action came, too, when the League Assembly passed a resolution which; 1) "solemnly condemns the action taken by the U. S. S. R. against the State of Finland"; 2) "urgently appeals to every member of the League to provide Finland, with such material and humanitarian assistance as may be within its power"; 3) "recommends that the [League] Council pronounce upon the question...
Expulsion. The Council took up the matter and immediately found that "by its act the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics has placed itself outside the League of Nations. It follows that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is no longer a member of the League." And so for the first time in its history the League had expelled one of its members...
...about the middle of Queen Victoria's reign, any member could secure a secret session by calling to the Speaker, "I spy strangers!" But after this cry had ejected the German Ambassador and the Prince of Wales, later Edward VII, the procedure was modified...
...member of the staff of the Paris Embassy last summer, Earle saw the inner workings of these dim steps to war, but more important, he talked with men of every station, from diplomatic dignitaries down. Only a few days before Germany marched, Earle visited Ambassador Biddle in Poland, and his account of feudal Poland is the high point of the book. It shows clearly the political set-up under which the Polish peasant labored and the nation's reaction to the inevitable annihilation ahead...