Word: third
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This exchange perceptibly relieved the feelings of the 1,200 U. A. W. delegates on the floor. Their union, which has mushroomed from 30,000 to 375,000 members since it convened in South Bend, Ind. a year ago, which is now the third biggest union in C. I. 0. (after United Mine Workers) was badly contorted by growing pains. The disagreement between cocky, young Homer Martin and his vice presidents, Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall, brewing ever since Martin blamed them for this summer's sporadic "unauthorized" General Motors sitdowns, had reached such a point that President Martin...
...Miner Lewis took them into his confidence about Miner William Green who, he charged, had telephoned Michigan's Governor Frank Murphy during the General Motors negotiations to plead "from his drooling lips" that no agreement be permitted. "Be it said," roared John L. Lewis darkly, "that on the third Tuesday of next January the delegates of the United Mine Workers of America will assemble in constitutional convention and at that time these delegates will deal with the case of William Green" (presumably by ousting him from his lifelong union...
While one premature Presidential candidacy was starting in the Philippines last week, another one was going on in Poland. In Warsaw, Pennsylvania's Governor George H. Earle. who two months ago in the U. S. plumped loudly for a Roosevelt third term, had a member of his staff give the press a statement describing himself as "the probable nominee of the Democratic Party for the Presidency of the United States...
British-born Ernst Wilhelm Bohle, appointed by Führer Hitler early this year to head the Foreign Office section dealing with Germans living abroad, branded as traitors all foreign-Germans "who while professing nationalist sympathies at the same time help the opponents of the Third Reich...
...cattle boat with his Harvard friend John Reed in 1911, and a later impulse sent him overside with a splash to swim back to Boston in what has become a classic change of heart. Huge, flat-nosed, bearded Painter Peirce. now 52, is still unpredictable though married for the third time and the father of twins. In Bangor, Me., last week he went out fishing while Manhattan's Midtown Galleries waited feverishly for new paintings to include in its "retrospective" exhibition of Peirces, to run through September...