Word: slates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sitting Democrats in Congress were renominated, including Mrs. Virginia Jenckes of Terre Haute who was opposed by the local Democratic organization but backed by the A. F. of L. Governor Paul V. McNutt apparently failed to get his picked slate of delegates elected to the State convention which will choose a Democratic nominee to run against Senator Arthur R. Robinson next November. The victory went to Reuben Earl Peters, onetime State Chairman, who will probably be Indiana's Democratic candidate for the Senate...
Amid prolonged applause the management slate of directors was overwhelmingly elected. Returned to the board after 14 years' absence was James Ward Thorne, onetime Ward vice president, son of the late George R. Thorne, co-founder (with Brother-in-law Montgomery Ward) of the company...
Last week the following were news: The president of the New York Stock Exchange serves for one year, the governors for four. Last week the nominating committee posted its slate for the May elections. Though talk of revolt against the Stock Exchange's die-hard policies had filled Wall Street for months. Richard Whitney was named for his fourth term and seven of the ten retiring directors were renominated. Nomination for president is tantamount to election. Nevertheless, it was clear that what for the Stock Exchange was a major shake-up had occurred. The three governors not renominated were...
...Revue" on the stage is an improvement on the screen show, its brightest moments being provided by the radio singer, Grace Hayes and her vocal imitator son and the three Slate Brothers with their remarkable adagio dance...
...Eight Hour Day. It has been a coal fields holiday ever since 1898 when the shorter day was finally won. This year because April 1 fell on Sunday, no coal miners worked Monday. But when the happy cutters, loaders, drillers, bonders, spraggers, snappers, trappers, trimmers, timbermen, bottom-cagers, slate-pickers and all the rest went back to the mines on Tuesday, it was to work not eight hours but seven. For last week United Mine Workers of America signed an agreement with most of the Appalachian operators providing for a seven-hour day, a five-day week and a basic...