Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Secretary-Treasurer George W. Anderson. He published a pamphlet charging that in the eleven years since President Whitney took office, B.R.T. had paid in salaries $995,542.74 more than in the ten preceding years. President Whitney's friend, T. B. Eilers, who is in charge of union insurance sales to members, was shown to have collected $429,288 "'in commissions" and expenses in the last four years...
Treasurer Anderson announced that he could not be responsible for B.R.T.'s funds unless he was allowed to watchdog. To this part of disgruntled Mr. Anderson's indictment, B.R.T.'s Whitney had a telling answer: union assets since 1935 have increased from $10,000,000 to $20,000,000, membership by 17,695 to 133,969. Brother Whitney had his delegates oust Brother Anderson, vote to meet hereafter in cities "whose newspapers appreciate our visit sufficiently to deal fairly and respectfully with...
...Montreal baseball park 50,000 children, mostly French Catholic, 900 of them forming a great Union Jack, sang while the King & Queen sat in an open Buick near home plate...
What Stalin says of world affairs makes news wherever he says it. To a war-haunted Europe, the Soviet Union has ceased to be the home of Soviets, of Five-Year Plans and collective farms, of propaganda campaigns and celebrations over the building of blast furnaces-it has become a potential enemy or ally for a gigantic struggle in the making. Imperceptibly, as the menace of war loomed bigger, outside interest in new ways of Russian life ebbed, interest in the Red Army grew...
...comes, the strength, stability, efficiency of the Soviet Union's new institutions may count far more than her planes and tanks, more than her standing army of more than two million. It will be a test of the theories of Lenin as well as of the practices of Stalin, of the hold that socialism-or of a social structure that calls itself socialist-has on the loyalties of 170,126,000 people. What has it given them? How firmly would they unite to defend it? After the purges and crises, after the Five-Year Plans, how much enthusiasm remains...