Word: pats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later, with both sides standing pat, the 30-day deadline came & went. Out of A. F. of L. marched 1,100,000 members of United Mine Workers; Amalgamated Clothing Workers; Ladies' Garment Workers; United Textile Workers; Oil Field, Gas Well & Refinery Workers; Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers; Iron, Steel & Tin Workers; United Automobile Workers; United Rubber Workers; Flat Glass Workers...
...Mississippi, Pat Harrison's 2-to-1 majority over Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner was not only a triumph for Senator Harrison and the New Deal, but also a thoroughgoing rebuke to junior Senator Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo, who had vented his spite against the senior Senator by campaigning for Conner. Theme of all 15 speakers at a Harrison victory feast in Jackson: "Now that we've licked Bilbo, we'll throw him into the Gulf four years from...
Almost the only man who refused to concede that Jimmy Byrnes's great victory, like Pat Harrison's, was a thumping endorsement for the New Deal was South Carolina's senior Senator Ellison D. Smith, no New Dealer. Sulked he: "There are so many elements involved that it is hard to interpret just what that expression means. The main thing in the whole business was South Carolina's loyalty even to the name of 'Democracy...
Last week the President hastily summoned a tax conference at the White House. Chairman Robert L. Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee and Chairman Pat Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee dropped everything and flew to Washington to attend. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau drove around to the White House. They all had breakfast together. Afterwards they emerged, gave the official result of their conference to the Press. It was in the form of a letter from Secretary Morgenthau to the President...
Like South Carolina, Mississippi also holds a primary-as-good-as-an-election next week. Unlike South Carolina's Senator Byrnes, however, Mississippi's Senator Pat Harrison was up against the hardest fight in his long Democratic career. On the ballot Senator Harrison's opponent is onetime (1932-36) Governor Martin Sennett ("Mike") Conner; on the stump his real adversary was his Senate colleague, squat, little Theodore Gilmore ("The Man") Bilbo...