Word: rewarding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State Federations of Utah, Wisconsin and Oregon have all gone on record for an out & out Labor Party to put up a united Labor front at the ballot boxes. But the policy of Boss William Green and most of his lieutenants has been that of a ward leader: "Reward your friends and punish your enemies." At last week's meeting President Green squashed the Labor Party agitation in his keynote address by replying to advice sent last summer from the Comintern at Moscow urging U. S. workers to align politically. "[The A. F. of L.] will not take that...
...Shushan, squat, swart dry goods wholesaler, has been well rewarded for the helping hand he gave Huey Long at the start. Grateful Governor Long made him an honorary colonel, showered his firm with fat, noncompetitive contracts to supply the State with such things as prison uniforms. His crowning reward was the presidency of the New Orleans Levee Board, with permission to build and name for himself a $4,000,000 airport having "Shushan" engraved 3,200 times on its metal, stone, tile and bronze. It was he who, as a bosom friend, stayed by Long's death bed. rushed...
...flame, Professor Guarneri, who reports three times a week to II Duce, closed with the calm estimate that even assuming successful military operations, which every Italian hopes will be swift and glorious, the development of Ethiopia would in any case require "fifty years of sacrifice before reaping the commensurate reward." Perfectly aware of this, Dictator Mussolini last week loosed the frenzy required to build empires, with sirens, church bells, battle planes thundering over every Italian city of importance and a nationwide hookup of loudspeakers in public squares which enabled 20,000,000 Italians to hear him in the open, women...
...reward for their highly satisfactory showing of last Saturday, when they downed an Exeter eleven which had itself beaten the Yale yearlings, Stabley has planned another hard week of scrimmaging for his charges before they face the heavy and fast aggregation up at Woreester...
Canal directors receive $17,000 a year-almost twice the salary of the U. S. director of the Panama Canal. In France the post of Canal Director is a political reward for faithful service. Most French Presidents become directors. General Max Weygand was chosen to succeed the late Louis Barthou. British directors, all of whom planned to attend this week's meeting, include such bigwigs as the Earl of Cromer, Sir Thomas Royden. Sir Ian Malcolm, Sir J. T. Davies...