Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Filibuster. The actual contents of the Wagner-Van Nuys Bill, as simple as they were familiar, would scarcely keep the U. S. Senate busy for that period. Like its predecessors, it provided for Federal prosecution, and a $5,000 fine or up to five years' imprisonment, or both, for sheriffs & peace officers who did not afford criminals and suspected criminals reasonable protection from mobs (any gatherings of more than three persons). Its other principal provision, the payment of an indemnity up to $10,000 to the family of a victim of mob violence by the county whose officials are responsible...
...Dubinsky told them: "We do not believe that our withdrawal from the C. I. O. would benefit the cause of unity and peace. . . . But it is our definite conviction that peace will ultimately have to be established in the labor movement. . . . The C. I. O. has passed its honeymoon period...
...railroads, worst hit of all U. S. industries, President J. J. Pelley of the Association of American Railroads declared: "During the first nine months of the year 1937 railway employment was consistently greater than in 1936. During the final three months, however, a reversal . . . brought the average for that period down to 3% below 1936. The decline was an accelerating one, amounting to 32,000 men in November and 73.500 in December...
University of Georgia students entered their fourth 24-hour period without sleep today--all in the interest of psychology...
...THIRD PERIOD SCORING...