Word: portlands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...American Federation of Labor, holding its annual convention at Portland, Ore. (TIME, Oct. 8) proceeded to the business of grinding out resolutions. This is the main function of the convention. Literally scores of resolutions were proposed and referred to committees?95 in the first five days alone. Some of the more important resolutions proposed...
...Communist leader from the Silver Bow Labor Council of Butte, Mont., indicted associate of W. Z. Foster, was expelled from the Convention, without any Gomperian steamrolling, 27,838 votes to 130. Dunne was charged with destructive designs upon trade unionism, on the strength of a speech he made in Portland ridiculing the Convention and its leaders...
...American Federation of Labor opened its 43d annual convention in Portland, Ore., and before it came its patriarchal leader, Samuel Gompers, with a declaration of faith...
...rabbit with a cork leg, wobbly ears and a false eye, its bodily structure fabricated of brown cotton, is paying a visit to Portland, Ore. The reason for this animal's visit is the opening of the annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor on Oct. 1. The rabbit is there as the mascot of the greatest cigarmaker in the world's history ? Samuel Gompers...
...Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Fall River Evening News, Hartford Courant, Japan Arvertiser, La Nacion, London Times, Milwaukee Journal, Minneapolis Journal, Montreal Star, New Hampshire Sentinel, New Haven Journal-Courier, New York Herald, New York Times, New York Tribune, New York World, Philadelphia Public Ledger, Pittsburg Gazette-Times, Portland Press-Herald, Portland Oregonian (A. M. edition), Providence Journal, Reading (Pa.) Eagle, Rocky Mountain News, St. Louis Globe-Democrat, San Francisco Journal, Spokane Spokesman-Review, Springfield Republican, Toronto Globe, Washington Post, Wisconsin State Journal, Youngstown Vindicator...