Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holding its weekly meeting, they found the Norse giant himself, blocking the door. Fists clenched, he thundered at Revels Cayton, author of the unity proposal, denounced him as fink and traitor. Of the secessionists only the repentant firemen returned to the federation fold. This week Lundeberg announced worse news for the Maritime Federation: His sailors had now chosen A. F. of L. by a 2-1 vote, were ready to join A. F. of L.'s Maritime workers under Joseph P. Ryan in a new organization romantically called the Seafarers' Federation. Result: a new line-up of Labor...
...Moore's political godfather, Boss Frank Hague of Jersey City, was spotlighted for suppression of C.I.O. and civil liberty in Jersey City. A Princeton trustee mentioned the decision to Federal Judge William Clark-who is presiding over Jersey City's civil liberties suit. Judge Clark dropped the news in conversation at the 19th hole of Princeton's golf club...
When the Princeton campus heard the news, 123 faculty members signed petitions of "consternation." The undergraduate Liberal club, spurred by Socialist Norman Thomas, Princeton '05, collected 600 signatures protesting "the tyranny and intolerance" for which Hague and "his puppet" Governor Moore stand. The Daily Princetonian called the award "a mistake" but counseled letting it go through "in an honorable way." The University, unable to withdraw its invitation, went uncomfortably ahead to make Harry Moore an honored...
...Great pressure has been brought to bear upon French political circles by British diplomacy," cabled French Ace Political Commentator "Pertinax" (Andre Geraud) to the Chicago Daily News. To the same newsorgan, London Correspondent William H. Stoneman wrote: "The British Government wants Rebel Generalissimo Franco to win the Spanish War and to win it in a hurry." British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain refused last week to act to protect frequently bombed and sunk British ships in Leftist ports...
...only thing that bothered him, when he read back over his diary, was that there was so much writing about troubles and squabbles in it. "I started out," he reflected, "with the idea that I would not mention any troubles at all, but that is about all the news there...