Word: talked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With this little fight talk Franklin Roosevelt last week warmed up A. F. of L.'s and C. I. O.'s peace negotiators. The six-A. F. of L.'s Harry Bates, Matthew Woll, Tom Rickert; C. I. O.'s John Lewis, Philip Murray, Sidney Hillman - and Madam Secretary Perkins listened respectfully. But Franklin Roosevelt as he addressed them at the White House before the beginning of their labors must have been pretty certain that most of them had their fingers crossed...
Between the Lewis proposal and the A. F. of L. position is one big difference: the Federation prefers to settle jurisdictional conflicts before admitting C. I. O.'s unions to a reunited organization. Otherwise, industrial unionists would be sure to dominate from the start. New to peace talk was the Lewis proposal to include the railway brotherhoods' 300,000-odd members...
...superintendents, principals and professors heard democracy discussed from every angle by 700-odd speakers at the annual convention of the American Association of School Administrators in Cleveland. All this oratory proved too much even for the superintendents. By week's end they had found something more amusing to talk about: a little book called The Saber-Tooth Curriculum-which, discovered on display in the exhibitors' hall, wowed the convention...
...KING: I talk to the people with...
...girl was all eagerness now. Her blue eyes fairly invited Vag to talk. "Oh, tell me whom you know there." Vag struggled to remember and finally produced a few names. The girl was disappointed. "I don't know any of them. They must be seniors...