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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the Post Intelligencer did not say was what everyone took for granted- that the President would make the trip the occasion for a few major speeches en route, a personal investigation of the Northwest's reaction to the last few months of the New Deal. Closest thing to official confirmation of the Seattle Post Intelligencer'?, scoop that could be gotten last week was an admission that the trip was under consideration. But last week the President had no eastern appointments on his calendar after September 17, when he is scheduled for an outdoor Constitution Day speech...
Warming to his audience, 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...
...place and in a sharecropper cabin I found the woman chained to a bed with a trace chain locked around her neck. She had been there several days. She had been fed well and other than being chained apparently had not been harmed. I ordered the woman unchained and took her and Wiggin off the farm...
This the portly man took in, slowly opening wide his big brown eyes. "Harvard?" he said, at length, "What's Harvard...
...years ago this Fall Harvard opened its now and magnificent set of Houses for the upperclassmen of the College and took the Yard from the Senior Class to hand it over to the Freshmen. At the time, it was done with fear and trembling, and even Copey, Harvard's beloved Charles Townsend Copeland, looked upon the invasion of the first-year Class as the approach of doom. For of 1,000 lusty throats, as yet unmodulated by the traditions of the College, bellowing "Reinhardt", the prospect was not too pleasant...