Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Obituary by Michigan's Murphy: "Michigan has led the world in the civilized attitude toward criminals. The hanging today was a blot on our century-old tradition, but I hope that it will have the effect of helping to abolish capital punishment from all the States in the Union...
This figure, calculated Correspondent Sheean, includes some 12,000 Roman Catholics, an additional 5,000 to 6,000 members of Ernst Rudiger Prinz von Starhemberg's Heimwehr, several hundred aristocrats, thousands of workers, trade-union leaders, Social Democrats and Communists, 20,000 Jews and 450 Austrian Nazis "purged" fortnight...
Since country weeklies are distinctive for their local flavor, great chains and publishing titans in this field are rare. However, their widening interests have meant greater dependence on centralized services. For editorial matter outside of local topics, some of them use the Western Newspaper Union, world's largest and oldest publishing syndicate. With 34 branch plants in principal U. S. cities, W. N. U. sells type, printing machinery, paper and 400 features to 10,732 daily and weekly newspapers. For national advertising, some 5,000 country papers are represented by the American Press Association, which is no association...
Before the State Board of Education had appeared Dr. William Card, onetime teacher at University of Wisconsin, now an organizer of the American Federation of Teachers. Dr. Card complained that spectacled, able young high-school teacher Stanley McMahon, president of a new teachers' union, and Union Member James Rowbottom had been fired from their Gilbert school jobs. Since 1931, said he, Gilbert's school board has fired 50 teachers "to make room for horsetrading and political favors." He found that all the Range towns had a teacher exchange system "more or less on the plan...
...philosophy with Tennessee agrarians, interviewed David Lilienthal of TVA, investigated TVA's town of Norris, observed the astonishingly pretty girls of Memphis, and looked over the model plantation set up by the Emergency Relief Administration at Dyess, Ark. He talked to organizers of the Southern Tenant Farmers' Union, to planters, to bespectacled, intellectual Oscar Johnston, resident president of Delta and Pine Land Co., operators of the biggest U. S. cotton plantation. He looked in on a historic, 100-year-old brothel in Vicksburg, and talked with an educated Negro who told him that white folks, when they were...