Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged James Michael ("Jim") Curley, 62, Massachusetts' outgoing Governor and Senator-reject; and a Mrs. Gertrude Casey Dennis, 44. widowed Brookline, Mass, pianist. Wedding...
...done quite enough, and done it very well. At the final Conference windup, Orator Hull was too hoarse to read his speech and that was done by Mr. Velles: "Peace . . . clear vision. . . . Let us return to our particular problems and duties pledging that we will, individually and collectively, reject the counsels of force. Let us hold out to a darkened world the beacon of a just and permanent peace which we pledge ourselves to maintain on this American Continent. May the spirit and the example which we have consecrated here be of avail throughout the world...
...week rose speaker after speaker to pledge renewed allegiance to Liberty, the Constitution and the American Way of Life, assure his fellow members of the Republican National Committee that they had fought a good fight, been beaten only by the New Deal's unbeatable Relief funds. Vice President-reject Frank Knox generously conceded that the return of prosperity and Republicans' failure to "popularize" their issues had had something to do with it. The only harsh words at the consolation party came from two uninvited guests...
...were the newsworthy old faces removed from, or new faces added to, the House. Most picturesque Congressman-reject was a woman, California's chunky, wisecracking old Florence Kahn, beaten after six terms by San Francisco's County Supervisor Franck Havenner on a straight Re-elect Roosevelt platform. In New York, Harlem's fiery little progressive Republican Vito Marcantonio was defeated by a Tammanyman. Making up for the loss of Arizona's Isabella Greenway, retired, Oregon elected another of Eleanor Roosevelt's bridesmaids, Nanny Wood Honeyman, to replace stalwart Republican William Ekwall. In North Dakota, freckled...
...problem is simpler than the smoke screen of mutual hate and intolerance implies. The companies should allow the unions the control they want in the hiring halls, agreeing to employ union labor without threat of "scabs" and strike breakers. Labor in turn should permit the companies to reject men they consider unfit, maintain the traditional right of the marine owner to employ whomever he chooses. Thus employers could not lock out workers for reasons of prejudice or party, but would still control the calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements based on these...