Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former electrical engineer who turned auto worker in 1923, Roland Thomas came up out of Chrysler plants where he organized one of U. A. W.'s original locals. His personal popularity will be an asset in the struggle between the factions for rank & file support. But the real bosses of C. I. O.'s union continue to be Messrs. Lewis, Murray & Hillman...
...Martin telephoned C. I. O. Vice Presidents Sidney Hillman and Philip Murray, the overseers installed by John Lewis to suppress factionalism in U. A. W. They went to Detroit, last week got the board to call a special convention for March 20 in Cleveland. Object: to let the rank & file end the row by throwing out one faction or the other...
...fame & power in 1937, was on the outside looking in at C. I. O. Two leaderships laid claim to U. A. W.'s contracts, bank accounts, membership. John L. Lewis' receivership for the union was itself in temporary bankruptcy. It appeared that only the rank & file could save U. A. W. from permanent disruption. And the shadow of a new figure appeared on the U. A. W. stage...
...Brunonia, though, is so strong this year that it definitely ranks among the best Eastern Intercollegiate Swimming League teams. Just why it has never joined the League is not clear, but this season the Bruins should rank after Harvard, Yale, and Princeton in Eastern swimming ratings. The order named above is this column's very much biased prediction of the 1939 tank struggles...
...underground movement against the Nazis, published his pro-Soviet ideas in book form, and was so bold as to call the Führer publicly "a German misfortune." According to knowing foreign correspondents, Herr Niekisch's misfortune was being caught secretly organizing a mass assassination plot against top-rank Nazis, possibly including Hitler himself. The plotters were said to have gone so far as to draw lots to choose the killers...