Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most damnable thing!" cried Democrat John Dempsey of New Mexico, who was absent (as usual) when the committee first voted to publish the list. Three minutes late at a meeting called to hear his belated objections, Committeeman Dempsey vainly stormed, with Mr. Voorhis vainly carried his protests to the House floor. Least excited were those immediately concerned. The League's publicized members ranged all the way from a Capitol charwoman, who makes 50? an hour, to NLRB's Edwin Seymour Smith, who makes $10,000 a year, and Assistant Secretary of the Interior Oscar Chapman...
...Mr. Boland and Mr. Johnson, prac tical and earthy men, saw their job as getting out the vote and to their job they swung with...
Scully refused to be fired, denied that Rosanoff had the authority. When pretty Mrs. Marjorie Reuman, Rosanoff's daughter, arrived to take over, she found the humorist encamped in his disputed office, determined to stay there until his term expired in 1942. One-legged Mr. Scully had fortified his position with 300-lb. Pete Ladjimi, who once served 30 days for assault & battery upon the person of ex-Champion Wrestler Gus Sonnenberg...
...decided to think of ourselves as a combat unit," said Mr. Miller, "fighting together against unemployment and not as 24 beaten, miserable and helpless railroad clerks." Each damned clerk would try first "to find or create a job for himself," then try "to find or create a job for 23 others." Last week Legionnaires Miller and Carr reported results: eight jobs found, two in sight. Pennsy's President Martin Clement heard about the Legion, praised the clerks' initiative, saw that several (including Mr. Miller) got their old jobs back...
This hearing was on charges made by seven rebel members of the Orleans Parish Grand Jury against the probity of District Attorney Charles A. Byrne. Mr. Byrne has supposedly been aiding the jury in a probe of the tangled corruption of Parish affairs throughout the State. Meantime pressure was brought-apparently by Earl Long-on Byrne to resign. Said Byrne: "There is no power or influence that can make me resign." Eighteen hours later he resigned, giving the familiar Louisiana excuse of "ill health...