Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rocky islets in the Gulf of St. Malo, halfway between St. Malo and the Isle of Jersey, which have long been used for French lighthouses. Deputy Geistdoerfer said that British "penetration" had been, going on there since 1839 on the basis of a 1360 treaty, and that now the Union Jack was floating over the islands...
...priests of his archdiocese-including one whose parish work is something of a side line, and whose love for labor is not great, Rev. Charles Edward ("Silo Charlie"*) Coughlin. As a starter in helping "Christian workers to train themselves in principle and technique to assume the leadership in the unions which their numbers justify," Archbishop Mooney proposed founding parish labor schools. Such schools, he said, might "sift the good from the bad in labor proposals, and be the defenders of sound, constructive union activity against . . . Communistic agitation...
Slender, dark, bustling Isabel Bishop, 36, has her studio at Broadway and 17th Street, hard by Union Square. Such paintings as Office Girls begin with a fast sketch done on the street, followed by a carefully composed etching. Models for her final, slowly and delicately built paintings are always girls found in the neighborhood, never professionals. The thing she feels about them and tries to communicate in her painting, she says, is their "mobility in life." the very fact that they do not belong irrevocably to a certain class, that anything may happen to them...
...financial background that fitted him to handle not only the fortune he had inherited from his father-in-law but other big sums that came under his control. He became president of the Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor (endowment $20,000,000), a trustee of Cooper Union and council member of New York University, a director of Texas Co. and the U. S. Trust Co., acting president of New York Hospital, committeeman in many a charity drive...
...Trade Union and Public Relief...