Word: ranking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Once more the labor chiefs had met, but in spite of rising pressure from the rank & file in both camps they were unable to agree on anything. The two principal points at dispute are: 1) what industries are to be designated by mutual consent for industrial organization along C. I. O. lines, and 2) what is to become of C. I. O. Mr. Lewis wants all C. I. O. unions admitted to A. F. of L., settling the jurisdictional questions after they are in. With nearly 4,000,000 members, C. I. O. would then of course dominate...
...symbol of official recognition of the Franco Regime by the Japanese Government. The U. S. State Department moved three weeks ago to have the U. S. consulate in Rightist Bilbao reopened by Mr. W. E. Chapman, who has been promoted from Consul to Second Secretary of Embassy, a diplomatic rank, since the consulate was closed six months ago. Last week Senor Antonio San Groniz, protocol officer to Rightist Generalissimo Franco, stated that upon reopening of the U. S. consulate "we would not infer that we were fully recognized by the United States Government." This caused Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...announced it would pre-empt the initial hearing for its official anniversary Reichskultürkammer in Berlin. In Richmond, Va. last fortnight, Violinist Menuhin listened to a short-wave broadcast of Aryan George Kulenkampff's interpretation of the concerto, praised the German as "a violinist of the first rank" regretted that "the edition played was not the original." Father Moshe Menuhin was less complacent: "It was Yehudi who discovered it. ... Kulenkampff gave a distorted, garbled version by another composer. ..." Yehudi plans to play the original version next month in St. Louis...
...FORTUNE, was a great success. Its first printing of 3,000 copies was quickly exhausted, likewise a second printing of 1,000 copies. Today, as Secretary Shiebler is getting his third illustrated report ready for press, his files are laden with 10,000 letters from parents and top-rank educators who admired his first two efforts, and publishers have made offers to print it commercially...
...Lerner, editor of The Nation and former lecturer in Government, declared last night in the Ford Hall Forum in Boston that "the rank and file of the two opposing labor camps are forcing their leaders to agree" in order that labor might be united to survive the rigors of the "new depression...