Word: platforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beyond his stand for Peace with Honor, appeal directly to A. F. of L. rank & filers to override William Green and re unite on C. I. O. terms. Mr. Lewis neatly suppressed that move. Then he permitted every union president worth mentioning, Bridges & Curran included, to parade to the platform. They upheld his position that C. I. O.'s industrial unions cannot risk dismemberment by joining any body dominated by A. F. of L. craftsmen. Said Electrical Worker James Barren Carey: "The C. I. O. wants peace˜without pieces." High Politics. Fitted into...
Next morning, worried, haggard Columnist Broun (who had approved the offending resolution) shambled to the platform, apologized for Mr. Watson's "clumsy wording" and declared the document didn't mean what it said, its denunciation did not apply to correspondents. Mr. Broun concluded: "But I do not except any publisher˜not a single one!" One Piece. To keep C.I.O.'s 41 national unions, 675 locals and 3,787,877 claimed members all in one piece, John Lewis depends upon: 1) his prestige; 2) the C.I.O. constitution, which vests large powers in his executive board...
...John Janson. He was speaking last week in the small ballroom of Washington's famed Willard Hotel, competing in the finals of a national oratorical contest for which Mr. Hamilton's committee had put up $15,000 in regional and main prizes. Young Orator Janson's platform manner was prodigiously polished for a junior high school freshman. His words had an authentic Republican ring...
...circled a massive, dingy brownstone building in the shadow of the Third Avenue elevated on Manhattan's Bowery. Then they marched into a basement auditorium to see big-eared Dr. Edwin Sharp Burdell, former dean of humanities at M. I. T., installed as director of Cooper Union. Among platform spectators was Dr. Burdell's 14-pound striped cat, "Farmer...
Speaking from a platform that included Otis A. Hood, Communist candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, and Earl Browder, secretary of the Communist Party, the author of "I Like America," said, "What I am saying is that I, as a teacher, have a right--a moral right if you want to put it that way--to be a Communist. You have a right to be a Communist...