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...labor movement has hung in a suspense which was expected to be resolved at Tampa. Instead the convention delegates voted to: 1) affirm the Executive Council's suspension order; 2) direct the Executive Council to continue efforts at reconciliation; 3) empower the Executive Council to summon a special convention of the Federation if they should finally feel driven to adopt some "drastic procedure." This temporizing simply meant that the old leaders of Labor, adepts at dodging responsibility, were putting the next move up to John Lewis, shouldering off on him the blame if Labor should be split. A committee...
Bishop Berkeley once said, "Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summon bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman...
...railroad passes, replaced them with his own men. During the textile strike of 1934 he earned millowners' gratitude and Labor's hatred by declaring martial law, throwing picketers into barbwired concentration camps. This year Governor Talmadge enlarged his domination to include all State departments by refusing to summon a balky Legislature to pass an appropriation bill, proclaiming himself financial dictator of the State. That involved not only court fights, but also sending militia to drag the State Treasurer out of his office, summoning locksmiths to cut open the Treasury vaults...
...these 50 years the greatest literature that the U. S. can claim was produced. The purpose of Critic Brooks's history is not only to re-examine the productions themselves, but to visualize the social conditions that nourished them, to study the men who created them, to summon up what was good in that society for its measure of guidance for the present. Van Wyck Brooks sees art as a normal function of men and communities. If men of genius are frustrated in their struggles to release their creative faculties, their tragedies are reproduced in the lives of anonymous...
Sandwiched in between social functions, given mostly by Congressmen angling for the U. S. Country Women's votes, were scores of addresses at Constitution Hall. An Australian delegate told how farm women there had installed a wireless set in every outlying homestead so that expectant mothers could summon medical aid. A British delegate made an impassioned plea for the destruction of stone walls and high hedges so that driving townspeople could enjoy country yards and gardens. A resolution favoring more emphasis on international news in rural newspapers passed unanimously. An lowan chorus chanted folk songs. An Amerindian woman presented...