Word: session
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...arms. Said Theodore Roosevelt, a Legion founder: "The study must have been made by a jackass." To Manhattan rushed National Commander Daniel J. Doherty to demand that the N. E. A. let him answer. Commander Doherty finally was given the floor at the convention's last business session. Said...
...delegates and 12,000 visitors who arrived in Manhattan for the 76th N. E. A. convention and incidental sight-seeing were embarrassed by even bolder talk than usual. Before the meeting began, a teacher tossed a firecracker at the American Legion (see col. 2). At an opening session, New York University's short, blunt Professor Alonzo Franklin Myers proposed that U. S. teachers discuss with their pupils, as study materials on dictatorship, the recent testimony of Jersey City's Mayor Frank Hague on suppressing opponents' speeches. Wriggling under such naming of names, the N. E. A. delegates...
...With reference to the so-called strike. . . . No strike had been called. Earnest Union men had met to discuss their problems. They were in session working them out when a few radicals and a few nervous women-just as you may have in New York, commenced to disturb the peace, and the efficient alert Akron Police Department stepped in and restored order. A boy was shot, but you are wrong again when you say he was a striker, and perhaps any boy who knowingly runs into trouble should expect to get hurt. However, our City Hospital, with the latest scientific...
...whole, he reported, in its last session the 75th Congress had done better than any Congress "between the end of the World War and the spring of 1933": It had failed him on Reorganization and on helping the railroads, but it had passed much excellent legislation, notably the Wages & Hours Bill. Here came crack No. 2. "Do not let any calamity-howling executive with an income of $1,000 a day, who has been turning his employes over to the Government relief rolls in order to preserve his company's undistributed reserves, tell you-using his stockholders' money...
...odds with the church administration because he thinks it has introduced too much business into religion, Businessman Babson arrived at the convention with a plan to reduce the church officials' power. At the opening session Dr. Charles Emerson Burton, retiring general secretary, replied to Moderator Babson's charges, agreed that Congregationalist ministers' salaries (average: $1,663) are too low, but declared the remedy is more businesslike money-raising, added: "Our men are not whining much...