Word: months
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...something which the world has every reason to take for granted, was not last week quite so remarkable as it might have seemed. Plain purpose of the midnight letter was to make front-page news in time to affect House debate on the bill which for a month has been causing the major political battle of the nation. Day after the Senate passed the bill last fortnight, the battleground shifted from Washington to Warm Springs when Franklin Roosevelt told an outdoor press conference its passage proved "that the Senate cannot be purchased by organized telegrams based on direct misrepresentation." Next...
...cause of this portentous prospect was a dispute as to whether an expired contract guaranteeing no wage reductions should be extended for three months or for one year as the union demanded. Early this week Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy, who knows how to remain calm under labor fire, deposited the contending parties in separate hotel rooms and, after seven consecutive hours of shuttling back & forth, the union agreed to call off the "revolution" in exchange for a four-month extension...
Uselessly, the delegates, representing an overwhelming majority of Pennsylvania labor, invited A. F. of L. to do likewise. For the convention itself was a measure of how deep and bitter Labor's division had become. Last month, when William Green ordered the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor to purge itself of disloyal C. I. O. unions, abetted by its president, John A. Phillips, the Federation instead constituted itself the 18th State Industrial Union Council organized by C. I. O. At its convention last week, attended by more than 1,000 delegates representing some 500,000 organized workers mainly...
Fifty-one years ago this month the crusading Farmers' Alliance began organizing in Georgia, had 100,000 members in three years. At that time Watson was a 31-year-old lawyer who played the fiddle, spouted Byron by the hour, and was considered a born orator in a State famed for them. Becoming the Alliance leader, Watson worked as hard for Negro farmers as for white, fought the convict lease system, was denounced as a communist while his followers were shot at and chased from the State...
...Last month's best-seller lists revealed only two big changes in the ranking of popular favorites. Five months after publication. Louis Bromfield's The Rains Came suddenly got its second wind, spurted ahead of Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents. And among non-fiction best-sellers Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People wobbled out of first place, was crowded hard for third by two newcomers, Edward Ellsberg's Hell on Ice and Rene Belbenoit's Dry Guillotine...