Word: shoreham
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington and then departed, not to be seen in the capital again. The Senator remained alone in Washington all winter, all spring. At 70 he is still almost as good a dancer as he was at 50. When one of the Senate pages, having spied him dancing at the Shoreham Hotel with Rose, pretty young daughter of U. S. Tariff Commissioner Thomas Walker Page, referred to him as a "dancing Senator'' in the pages' newspaper, angry Senator McAdoo got the paper suppressed. Another young lady with whom he was often seen was Lyla, daughter of Senator Townsend...
...front cover) On a long shiny table in Room 800 B of Washington's new Shoreham Hotel was signed one night last week the biggest, most significant work-&-wage contract in the history of U. S. labor. At one end of the table, his beefy bulk overflowing the chair, sat John Llewellyn Lewis, black-maned, bushy-browed president of United Mine Workers of America. At the other end was the thin, rigid figure of John De Lorma Adams Morrow, president of Pittsburgh Coal Co., who also heads the potent Northern Coal Control Association. Loudly and often had Operator Morrow...
...Hour. The Shoreham Contract's complete and unequivocal recognition of his union by the archfoes of organized labor marked the high point of Leader Lewis' career. Undoubtedly he, a hidebound Republican, could never have achieved this success if it had not been for a Democratic President whose New Deal had turned Industry and Labor topsy-turvy. But his foresight and energy in organizing coal miners under NRA, his ironhanded persistence in negotiating a union coal code with non-union operators, marked him as Labor's man-of-the-hour. A ragged broken band were United Mine Workers...
President Lewis' personal triumph at the Shoreham Hotel last week tended to overshadow these old familiar charges. Right or wrong in his past tactics, he had been quick enough, shrewd enough, dogged enough to squeeze the maximum benefits for his men from NRA. In three short months he had jacked U. M. W. out of disintegration and despair, energized it into the greatest single affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. He was the prime embodiment of Labor resurgent under the New Deal. As such he was prepared to stride into the A. F. of L. convention this week...
Coast guards at Shoreham, England, surveying a stormy sea, saw a white speck fluttering in the dusk. Three miles out they found weary-armed James Henry Thomas, Britain's Secretary for Dominions, tugging at an oar in a stalled motorboat with three fishing companions...