Word: smedley
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...enough, but adds that Congress nixed integration reform from the package anyway due to pressure from employer organizations. The AFL-CIO has consistently opposed integration. AFL unions around the country will not permit it even to be considered during the collective bargaining process. As Lawrence Smedley of the AFL claims, only the small unions and non-union employees allow integration into their pension plans...
...reading period atmosphere permeates--and spoils--Cambridge for you, then head for Copley Square and the Newbury Street Theater's production of Daughter of Earth. The play is a biographical drama of the life of Agnes Smedley, based on a novel of hers. In this adaptation, Smedley--who wrote several books on the development of Communist China, derived from her experiences as a journalist--develops from frontier child to waitress to Berkeley student to activist and newspaperwoman, analyzing first Germany and then China. Deeply committed to the Communist Revolution, she became the target of anti-Red feeling in her native...
...consistent aspect of our foreign policy for decades, from interventions in China at the turn of the century to the CIA-organized coup in Iran in 1953, from Teddy Roosevelt's "dollar diplomacy" in Latin America to the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. In 1935 Major General Smedley Butler said...
Obviously the plot failed. Jules Archer, journalist-historian, supplies some fascinating details that make the episode considerably more than a paranoid fantasy. In 1933 emissaries purporting to represent an organization called the American Liberty League approached a retired Marine general named Smedley Darlington Butler. The League was devoted to laissez-faire capitalism and backed by such people as the Du Ponts and J.P. Morgan. The general was offered an extravagant budget - $3,000,000 for starters, with a possible $300 million if necessary - to mobilize an army of 500,000 veterans and lead them to Washington, there to force Roosevelt...