Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formidable did the Garner economy bloc appear last week that alert little David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance (reliefers' union) sounded an alarm, called for "the angry voice of the people" to halt "the reckless plans of Garner and his clique...
...resignations of 15 ambassadors; 4) submitted to the Chamber of Deputies a decree permitting former President Alessandri to leave Chile for "a rest" in Europe, despite a Constitutional requirement that the old President remain in Chile until six months after termination of office; 5) considered recognition of the Soviet Union; 6) put into effect a nationwide reduction in bread prices; 7) raised hours of employment of Federal workers to eight a day; 8) ruled that Cabinet Ministers must spend three hours each day receiving the public in order "to keep in touch with the masses"; 9) gave tacit approval...
White's, Boodle's, Brooks's still exist; London's Athenaeum Club is 115 years old. Manhattan's Union Club is 103, its Union League 76. Last week, as bells rang in another year, another Manhattan club turned a corner, looked back sentimentally at its first half-century of life. Lest memory fail, it incorporated that half-century in book form...
...Yard, graduate of Swarthmore College in 1933, was elected national chairman to succeed Robert E. Lane '39, while William N. Chambers '39, stole Harvard honors by his election as public affairs chairman. Both Lane and Avram S. Goldstein '40, however, were elected to the national executive committee of the Union, while Chambers automatically becomes a member through his election to the post of secretary...
Chambers' work, which will start in June, will consist of carrying out organizational work inside the Union, cooperating with other organizations in their work, and in working to prepare for the political campaigns, especially those...