Word: stubbornest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gift horses' teeth. For four and a half hours West Virginia's Rush Dew Holt bellowed opposition, drawing breath only to mimic stridently Franklin Roosevelt's Groton-Harvard accent and inflection. North Carolina's Reynolds charged that Stalin sank the Athenia. But only the stubbornest Senate orator could ignore the fact that the galleries lay almost empty day after day. Nobody came to hear the Great Debate; though on one day hundreds flocked to see Fritz Kuhn before the Dies Committee. This week the Senate got ready to shift its burden to the House...
...hearings on charges brought against Weirton Steel Co. by C. I. O.'s Steel Workers' Organization Committee. Among the 6,479 cases which N. L. R. B. has handled, this one stood out because Weirton Steel Co. and its board chairman have long been among the stubbornest and most effective opponents of the New Deal's labor policies. In 1933-35, Weirton Steel bluntly snubbed NRA by refusing to hold a labor board election, and was upheld by a Wilmington, Del. Federal district judge. This time Weirton was accused of flagrant violation of the 1935 Wagner Labor...