Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ensuing tussle Brother Bob, a conservative like his father, lined up with Cincinnati's Republican organization. As a reward for his party regularity, Ohio picked him as its Favorite Son for the Republican Convention of 1936. Brother Charlie, on the other hand, became a leader of the Cincinnatus Association, a group of energetic young men bent on ridding the city of its wasteful, machine-ridden government. They did, by putting over a new charter which created a city manager and proportional representation, making and keeping Cincinnati one of the best-governed cities in the land. Charlie Taft told...
...publicly to the New Deal, bold John Lewis had rushed in to place his industrial unionists solidly behind the President, help organize Labor's Non-Partisan League to work for his reelection. When Franklin Roosevelt gratefully accepted this support, craft unionists began to suspect that he would reward it by siding with John Lewis in Labor's internal dispute. A further political complication was the fact that one of the A. F. of L. Executive Council's bitterest enemies of industrial unionism, President William L. Hutcheson of United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, who hates Leader Lewis...
Last week in Kansas City a ghost from the past of Universal Oil Products arose to plague a man who had also hoped to share the wealth created by Carbon Petroleum Dubbs. U. S. oil companies did not reward the inventor and his backers out of the goodness of their hearts. To establish its claims to its oil-cracking process, Universal fought many a long patent suit, one of them with Standard Oil of Indiana. Special master in that suit was an obscure Missouri lawyer from Sedalia named Holmes Hall. For his services he was allowed...
...rank to one of the Twelve Apostles, soon became known as the canniest of the lot. When the Mormons planned to extend their empire to California, Rich was one of the two apostles they sent in charge of the expedition. The California experiment eventually petered out, but as a reward for his efforts, Rich was sent to Europe with another apostle on an innocent junket, to stir up the Saints in foreign lands...
Only concrete German reward to Schmeling last week was a season pass to the Berlin Olympic Games...