Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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California law provides that each death sentence has automatic appeal to the Supreme Court before final judgement is made and date of execution set. At that time none on condemned row had gone through the Supreme Court. At date of this letter my appeal is still before the Court. In cases where the Supreme Court upholds conviction it usually is a matter of 3 to 4 months before actual execution takes place...
...John L. Lewis this was all a very serious matter, for U. A. W. has every sign of being C. I. O.'s soundest long-term asset. Unlike mining, steel, oil, textiles, the motor industry has still a big enough margin of profit to make auto unions as well as auto manufacturers economically powerful. If U. A. W. can expand into aviation, glass, rubber, as John Lewis hopes, it will add still further to its power. Given leadership, U. A. W. might gain a dominance like that of the railroad brotherhoods in Labor's last generation...
...among us is only skin deep and incapable of inspiring heroic deeds. ... A wrong adaptation of foreign customs creates in us, especially among the young, a feeling that politeness is commonplace and that smartness and insolence are equivalent to good breeding. We attained our freedom but our spirit is still bound by shackles forced by the frailties of our nature. We are Orientals. Orientals are known for their placidity and passiveness. I refuse to allow Filipinos to be so regarded...
...high seas, that she is hampered by a list of contraband imposed by the Committee. He complained also that only those foreign volunteers of nations represented on the Non-intervention Committee would be withdrawn under the plan, leaving the volunteers from the U. S.-not a Committee member-still fighting...
...crescendo of Chinese guerrilla activity behind Japanese lines. Tsinan, Shantung's capital, was attacked fiercely by Chinese partisans. Chuyung, 26 miles north of Nanking, was temporarily captured by raiding guerrillas. Most daring guerrilla raid of all was one staged in western Shanghai. Between Nanking and Shanghai were still operating last week no less than 43,000 Chinese regulars in detachments which changed their positions nightly...