Word: standing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches from Paris told that the stand taken by the Papacy has already shorn Editors Daudet and Maurras of perhaps half their Roman Catholic supporters. For example, the smart, swagger group of young Royalist bravos who used to be known as Les Camelots du Roi, "The King's Newsboys," because they sold copies of L'Action Française have deserted in numbers approaching a stampede...
Three Harvard hockey players have been placed on the all-collegiate hockey team of C. L. Wanamaker, coach of the Yale sextet. F. R. G. Giddens '30 has been listed at right wing, Captain J. P. Chase '28 at center, and Joseph Morrill '28 would stand in the net for the mythical...
...Service Committee, to which they protestified was considering, among other pay raises the establishment of $1,500 as a minimum wage for any Federal fulltime job This increase the marchers favored. But one man, Clerk Edwin Evans of the General Accounting Office, cried out: "I am opposed . . . though I stand alone among the 60,000 Government workers in Washington." His points were that the "Welch bill, containing the $300 minimum increase, would benefit the least needy workers the most; that it would keep young married women in Federal jobs, instead of efficient bachelors and spinsters...
...Schwab took the stand first to give the Committee his side of this story. Corpulent, jovial, ingratiating, he refused to discuss details, saying that he had been busy playing golf last summer and had now just returned from Europe. He said the Committee must get the details from his subordinates. But he was delighted to give the Committee and the world the benefit of his long experience as an employer: "It has been a broad policy into which the question of the open shop or union labor does not enter. As the result of my forty years' management of labor...
...opposition to Soviet Russia. Thus U. S. Representative Hugh Simons Gibson followed Lord Cushendun with a speech in which he went even further toward condemning the Soviet proposal and roundly advised that the Commission waste no more time upon it. Meanwhile the German and Turkish representatives had taken the stand that they approved the Soviet proposal "in principle"; but all the Latin nations showed themselves unalterably opposed. As a result, the Commission prepared to put the. Soviet draft convention again into storage by delaying any further consideration which may be accorded it to a future session...