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...uncomfortable if not wholly impracticable affair, promptly assured the Governor that C. I. O. contemplated no Sit-Downs in its oil drive. "Gladly" he furnished the names & addresses of all his organizers. Last week, still anxious to conciliate Texas officialdom and public, he followed up with an astonishing telegram inviting the Governor to make a thoroughgoing investigation, "purge our organization of any member subversive to American institutions...
...Dear General: I wish to acknowledge receipt of your telegram of Feb. 15 in which you express your opposition to the President's proposal concerning the Supreme Court. . . ." Thus wrote Indiana's pro-Roosevelt Senator Sherman ("Shay") Minton in a letter addressed to General Arthur St. Clair, Indianapolis...
When Heywood Broun, the New York World-Telegram's crusading columnist, called the first meeting to form a Newspaper Guild in December 1933, Morris Watson was one of the handful that showed up. From the outset he was a zealous Guild organizer and officer, outspoken not only against his employers but leading a campaign against the Brooklyn Eagle, an AP member. He headed deputations to Washington, signed demands by the Guild to his AP superiors. He was told his Guild activities were lessening his value at the AP and finally, Oct. 18, 1935 he was fired "because...
Died, Talcott Williams Powell, 36, tenacious newshawk whose Veteran Relief series won the New York World-Telegram a 1932 Pulitzer Award, explorer, onetime (1933~35) editor of the Indianapolis Times; after an appendectomy; in Greenwich, Conn...
President Lowell's telegram follows closely President Conant's letters denouncing the Supreme Court change into the national arena...