Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Movie Producer Samuel Goldwyn announced this week that he had "hired" Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt to write movie ads for Stella Dallas, a Goldwyn picture soon to be released...
...office workers are invading Wall Street. Here & there C.I.O. has lost minor collective bargaining elections to A. F. of L.. but the defections of A. F. of L. unions into C.I.O.'s ranks still continues. Even Cigar Makers International Union Local No. 144, the local of Samuel Gompers. longtime pillar of the A. F. of L., lately voted to throw in its lot with John Lewis. C.I.O. membership is now nearly as large as A. F. of L.'s (3,000,000 as against 3,600,000). Said sarcastic Mr. Lewis last week: "If C.I.O. continues...
...Great Britain is guilty of the gravest betrayal of a most sacred trust!" cried Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, President of the Zionist Organization of America. "We Jews found Palestine an almost abandoned waste. Under the mandate of Britain we transformed that waste into a high civilization! [The Report] attempts to set up another spurious Arab kingdom, strikes at the very heart of Jewish hopes and is an affront to the League of Nations...
...become cabinet ministers in the provinces where they had won (TIME, April 12 et ante). Last week His Majesty's Government were glad they had replied to this political boycott by Gandhi's Indian National Congress by simply sitting tight. It was the original contention of Sir Samuel Hoare, chief maker of India's new Constitution when he was Secretary of State for India (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935 et ante), that no matter how hard Indians at first kicked against its traces they would end by settling down, pulling in harness. Last week the Congress Party executive...
...Majesty's Government, once Congress politicians take office they will end by trying to make the Constitution work, rather than by continuing efforts which would wreck the Constitution and cost them their lucrative jobs under it-this bait having thoughtfully been provided by far-seeing Sir Samuel Hoare, today Home Secretary and runner-up for the Prime Ministry...