Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Senator James Couzens. The battle to succeed him developed into a three-cornered fight among C. I. O., A. F. of L. and Detroit's better businessmen. Sponsored by the city's conservative citizenry who earlier in the year were fearful that a united labor slate would sweep the field, was Richard W. Reading, long-time city clerk. The C. I. O. candidate was an oldtime Democrat named Patrick O'Brien, Michigan's 69-year-old veteran attorney general who made his liberal name as circuit judge during the copper mine strikes in Michigan before...
...general conditions are really as black as Mr. Tunis paints them, what of Harvard? Fortunately Harvard's slate appears to be clean, for instead of having to lure coy students to Cambridge, University Hall is at pains to limit the enrolment each year so that the teaching staff and, more important, the dormitory space in the Houses, will not be flooded. As long as this situation prevails, it is obvious that whatever agents the University may send around the country to interview students, especially those applying for scholarships, and to explain to the public in general the intricacies and formalities...
Featured on the slate of speakers will be Francis Keppel '38, president of the Student Council, introduced by C. Colton Daughaday, Jr. '38, president of P. B. H. and host tonight at the social service centre's annual reception to the entering Class...
...plenty of trouble for "Mitch." But he himself was so recently Labor's chief champion that Ontario's proletariat has been caught napping. Up to last week one and only one candidate affiliated with C. I. O. had offered himself for election against "Mitch's" Liberal slate, Alfred Mustin, President of Local No. 67 of the United Rubber Workers of America, standing at North Waterloo as an Independent Laborite...
Picking up whatever implements they could lay their hands on, a band of marauders broke into the school and proceeded to thwack, whack, hack their way through each & every one of its dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls, disemboweled a piano, scuttled kitchen 'equipment, tore up writing paper, tore down wall clocks, scattered movable and immovable objects on the floor until thousands of dollar? of damage had been done and the building looked like a Hollywood set at the end of an Edward G. Robinson cinema. What...