Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Episcopal canons, let loose a blast at the C. L. I. D. program. He wrote to Episcopal journals (one of which, The Churchman, declined to print his words and editorially questioned his ethics in giving his letter simultaneously to the daily press): "The C. L. I. D. is ... militantly partisan and radical. ... It is evident that these meetings are not for judicial consideration, or for social education, but that they are purely propagandist, with more than a tinge of Communism. Should any organization be allowed to use the General Convention as a means for its economic and political propaganda...
...industry and ban interstate shipment of goods produced by child labor. Passed by the Senate, the bill was reported favorably by the House Labor Committee but kept off the floor by a clique of Southern members of the Rules Committee. As chairman of Labor's Non-Partisan League, John L. Lewis of C. I. O. denounced the House Committee Wages & Hours tie-up, threatened to form a new party to effect social legislation if the Democratic Party failed to do so. William Green of A. F. of L., no real enthusiast for the bill, also made some deprecating remarks...
...journalistic tribune of the people, the St. Louis Post Dispatch, had gone far enough into the background of the sale to start a first class Missouri scandal. The Board of Fund Commissioners' official explanation of Baum, Bernheimer's third big bond purchase was that the State Bi-Partisan Advisory Board had recommended "immediate" sale of the bonds to pay for July and August construction work at State prisons, that a public sale would have taken at least 30 days. Advisory Board Chairman Sam E. Trimble, however, declared that the board had been aware of this "immediacy" since last...
...attack on the Labor Board last week from Senator Gerald P. Nye, usually rated proLabor. Comparing it to a "kangaroo court," the North Dakota Senator cried: "The National Labor Relations Board seems to have gone out of its way to demonstrate to the public that it is a partisan body rather than a judicial institution. It has disqualified itself as a referee between management and workers...
...daily journalism is fashioned along reportorial rather than interpretive lines. Therefore, the very nature of the newspaper business-as well as the diffuse and widespread nature of the phenomenon itself-has made it almost impossible for U. S. newspaper readers to discover, except in opinions of the small partisan press of the Left, the inevitable larger action taking place behind the daily tactics of the Labor struggle. The motivations that lie beneath the strikes, picketings, conferences and ultimatums have not generally broken the roily surface of the story. But day to day information from the Labor front was being gathered...