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Sing a song of privilege, A pocketful of rank. Kick and beat the G.I.s Make 'em walk the plank...
...triumvirate could never amount to more than a test of strength for future battles. On the second day Carey made his bid: a resolution to bar Communists from union office. It never came to a vote. By a landslide majority of 2,827 to 679, U.E. delegates substituted a plank guaranteeing "every member all rights and privileges . . . including the right to hold any position . . . regardless of craft, age, sex, nationality, race, creed or political belief...
Ever since Harry Lundeberg led the A. F. of L. Seamen down the plank to the most concerted strike effort since the railway debacle, the public has been aware that this was no ordinary strike. No one seemed to be talking about company profits or dictatorial union practices. It seemed that the seamen wanted more money and the companies were willing enough to give it to them, but that Washington, the wettest blanket at a sweet party, had said a lond and determined...
Shadowboxing. Woodring's strafing of the dry law caught Kansas politicians off guard. So effective was his attack that the down-at-heels Democratic organization nominated him as the gubernatorial opponent of Republican Congressman Frank Carlson (TIME, Aug. 19). Then he wrote a wet plank (repeal, state-operated liquor stores, county option, no saloons) into the Democratic platform. By last week Harry Woodring had come up from nowhere to a 50-50 chance for election...
Jones' body was marked with slashes and bruises, which Richardson said apparently had been inflicted with a flat object, such as a wide leather belt or a thick plank...