Word: speeches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days later William Green said of John L. Lewis and his speech: "He denounced in autocratic and dictatorial terms the greatest friend of Labor who has ever sat in the White House. ... I resent it. I resent it emphatically...
First effect of this paternal visitation was felt when Homer Martin withdrew from his welcoming speech a sharp reference to the sitdowns. He was chastened when the convention in a voice vote objected to three of his pet proposals: to make the conventions biennial rather than annual, to require a 50% vote of the membership (rather than of five locals from three different States) to call special conventions, to decrease the delegate representation of big locals, i.e., the Flint and West Detroit strongholds of Unity Lieutenants Robert Travis and Walter Reuther. Mr. Martin announced that an even more high-handed...
After the Lewis speech the delegates, pounding, shouting, waving their banners, unanimously adopted a motion calling for a special assessment of $1 on each member to raise a war chest for the drive on Ford. "We'll be in before snow flies," said Homer Martin. That was the signal for a long demonstration with the convention band blaring Solidarity Forever...
Baron Constantin von Neurath, Foreign Minister, only recently become a Nazi Party member, delivered the keynote speech of the expatriate Congress: "We have no thought of going contrary to the generally accepted rules regulating the rights of foreigners, but we will not tolerate that foreign governments should discriminate against Germans within their boundaries because of Nazi affiliations...
When a motion was made to print Professor Davis' speech of welcome, Delegate James A. Meade of Chicago rose to shout: "I for one refuse to sit here and hear the president misrepresent the great body of American teachers. The rank and file don't want that kind of stuff. We're for the A. F. of L. regardless of what you want to do. You represent the C. P. but I don't know whether that stands for 'college professors' or 'Communist Party'." This gibe was greeted by a storm...