Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...craw which apparently occasioned this statement was an NLRB report, issued last week, which in effect showed that, as a general thing, employes participating in NLRB elections prefer C. I. O. over A. F. of L. In 208 of 966 elections between October 1935, and January i, 1938, C. I. O. directly opposed A. F. of L., won 160. In all, C. I. O. contested in 557 elections, won 81.7%; A. F. of L. entered 453, won 56.1%. Lately the proportion of A. F. of L. victories has risen, C. I. O.'s has declined, and (significantly for both...
Before and after Arthur Morgan. Messrs. H. A. Morgan and David Lilienthal were heard. Said H. A. Morgan: "TVA is a good thing." Said David Lilienthal: "We cut red tape and went right ahead" (to set up TVA's yardstick in 1933). Later studies, he explained, showed that the rates he originally hit upon were sound...
...goosestep around with a gun instead of a baseball bat? . . . Did you observe, if you saw the Orioles play, that a fellow named Joe Greenberg was right in there with the- rest of the boys? . . . Did you visit the zoo at Druid Hill Park? That's the closest thing we have to a concentration camp...
...which to the accompaniment of prayers and recitations, they are expected to fill with $3 during seven weeks, the money being used to send Unity publications to new prospects. They may, likewise, buy Unity phonograph records, one such, the Consecration of the House, being catalogued: "Can you imagine any thing more desirable, were you moving to a new home, than to have Charles Fillmore dedicate...
Back in 1918, when Ruth McKenney was six and her sister Eileen was five, the movie matinees of Mishawaka. Ind., were a big thing in the lives of the children of the town. They lasted all afternoon, cost only a nickel, and showed a new installment of a serial every day. Since few of the audience could read, childish riots, peanut fights, screams and free-for-alls broke out when subtitles were too long. The fun lasted until the operator switched on the lights and bawled: "Shut up, you brats, or I'll throw you all out." Ruth...