Word: truce
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...Southern Society of New York in Manhattan last week, "once called me an unreconstructed rebel." The pleasant man, said Senator Glass, dropping the cloak of implication, was Franklin Roosevelt. Wrapping the light garment about him once more, the peppery little old Democrat then served notice that his campaign truce with the New Deal was over by enlarging as follows on an anecdote of a famed Confederate general: "Jube Early was an unreconstructed rebel to the day of his death. He used to come frequently into my newspaper office and one day he said to me: 'Carter, I had hoped...
...their own Sheriff William Cragg, who offered a reward of $250 for the return of the Blantons "dead or alive." Citizens gathered with arms and would have invaded the King Ranch had not Texas Rangers appeared. Captain William McMurray of the Rangers persuaded them to declare a three-day truce to give the Law a chance to find the bodies-for no one doubted that the Blantons had been shot by Kleberg fence-riders or game wardens...
Back last week from a Y. M. C. A. meeting in Indianapolis sped harried President Mordecai Johnson, persuaded the strikers to call a truce while he considered their demands: 1) better football equipment, 2) jobs for the team payable in board, 3) a football training table and dietitian, 4) an experienced full-time coach, 5) a team physician and trainer. Said a football spokesman, called upon to explain the Virginia Union desertion: "We were too hungry to get in there and battle those big country boys full of ham and kale. . . . Now this Lincoln team, they got a training table...
...made General Hugh Johnson's labor-aide on NRA, soon after Assistant Secretary of Labor, began his travels from strike to strike. In 1933 he went to Uniontown, Pa. where striking United Mine Workers were meeting. In one speech he persuaded them to accept a truce and go back to work. In 1934 he spent six months on the Pacific Coast with the shipping strike. Same year he was occupied with the A. & P. strike; in 1935 with the Chevrolet strike (Toledo), the Edison strike (Toledo), the Industrial Rayon strike (Cleveland), soft coal strike negotiations, the longshoremen...
...slant eyes of the Far East, China appallingly "lost face" by this Tangku Truce, which has been stretched by Japan in the ensuing months to legalize any outrage Japanese or Koreans chose to commit in North China. In the spring of 1936, not only were Japanese-smuggled sugar, artificial-silk and cigaret paper selling openly in Peiping for less than the Chinese duty which should have been collected on them, but the Chinese state railways were each day running a "smugglers" freight car" coupled to the morning passenger train which entered North China from the Japanese puppet Empire of Manchukuo...