Word: opener
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barkley leadership by refusing to do so. Another blow was the warning by oldtime Liberal George Norris that a prolonged, bitter filibuster in the face of important legislation might be too high a price even for an anti-lynching bill. Said he: "Perhaps this is not the time to open wounds that may not heal." A reporter asked Tom Connally whether he still thought he and his friends could talk until Christmas. The old Texan snorted...
...organ, Justice, laid the blame for the collapse of the A. F. of L.C. I. O. peace negotiations on John L. Lewis (TIME, Jan. 10). But the Dubinsky speech last week was the first time that one member of the C. I. O. high command has attacked another in open forum. Briefly and bluntly Mr. Dubinsky declared that the peace negotiators had arrived at a basis for settlement but that the formula was personally vetoed by John L. Lewis. "No one man," cried Mr. Dubinsky, "has a mortgage on the labor movement...
...needed to make unions financially responsible. The damages assessed recalled the historic Danbury Hatters case, which was fought through the courts for twelve years before it was passed upon by the Supreme Court in 1915. The hatters' union declared a nation-wide boycott on hats of an open-shop Danbury hat manufacturer, the late Dietrich E. Loewe. Hat-Maker Loewe then founded the American Anti-Boycott Association, sued the union, won a judgment of $252,000 against 200 union members. Homes and other property of the workers were attached, but the unionists swore they would not pay even...
...long analysis of some of the Lundberg figures, the Annalist said last week: "No 500-page book on economic history can escape containing true statistical statements but Mr. Lundberg's book has come surprisingly near that achievement." More open to question, however, than Ferdinand Lundberg's facts are the inferences he draws from them, unfailingly deducing sinister motives for acts often quite innocent...
...recognition of the Chinese Government. This meant that the Japanese Ambassador would quit China, and since the severance of diplomatic connections is often (although not invariably) the prelude to a declaration of war, it suggested that the purpose of the Imperial Council meeting was to sanction a War, open and declared...