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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...White House Correspondents' Association canceled its annual dinner for the President at the Hotel Mayflower, partly to save Franklin Roosevelt the embarrassment of crossing an A. F. of L. picket line.* However, since waiters, cooks and bartenders at the Mayflower and twelve other Capital hotels had struck for a closed shop, Actors' Equity Association would have forbidden professional entertainers to appear; food & service would have been substandard; Secret Service men would have strenuously objected to the President risking a picket line, even had he been willing...
...thing in U. S. history. (The Republican Party found its left wing rebellious in the Coolidge-Hoover era.) Rebellion by the substantial leaders of a party against their leader-in-chief is rarer. And the rebellion which John Nance Garner now leads is rarer still in that it is, save in small things, almost intangible-less a rebellion than a resistance. It is nonetheless the biggest political struggle now going on in Washington...
John Nance Garner may very possibly be such a candidate. His friends say he seeks only to save the common people's party from perdition in loose liberalism, and that, while receptive, he is unselfish, unconcerned about becoming President. His enemies say that, having long bided his time, this 70-year-old sagebrush poker-player at last holds the makings of a royal flush and can scarcely contain himself when he looks at the pot he might...
...said a lengthy "Affirmation of Christian Pacifist Faith" drawn up last week. In the world of 1939, in which many haters of war have begun to consider that it may become necessary to fight in order to save Christianity as well as democracy from Fascism, 100 leading U. S. Protestant ministers signed their names to this declaration of pacifism come-what...
Even this drastic expedient, however, will not save the system if further concessions are made to labor, and these seem inevitable. Moreover the University is committed to continue T. S. E. P. for at least another year. For this reason the University is negotiating for raises to take effect in September, thereby relieving this year's budget of unexpected burden and allowing time to consider and fix a new meal rate...