Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soldiers Field, where the procession will go into the Stadium to watch the team go through its final practice in Cambridge. Cheer leaders will be on hand, and there will be ample opportunity for the College to show its support, which was the purpose of the rallies at the Union. It was felt that the rallies did the team no good which could not be obtained through an enthusiastic final practice session...
...again, in again. That was the political gymnastic performed last week by gruff, choleric General James Barry Munnik Hertzog, His Majesty's Prime Minister in The Union of South Africa...
Briefly, the Minister of Posts & Telegraphs had been showing himself entirely too considerate of blackamoor trade unions. In vain Big White General Hertzog and his Nationalist Party had threatened, fumed. Mr. Madeley as a member of the Labor Party could not see his way clear to upholding the Nationalist postulate that blackamoors must be "kept in their place," economically, politically. The crisis was precipitated when Minister Madeley received a Negro deputation from the Industrial & Commercial Workers' Union, officially, at the Ministry of Posts & Telegraphs. That reception brought General Hertzog's demand for the Minister's resignation...
...Governor-General of the Union of South Africa is the Earl of Athene, brother of Queen-Empress Mary. When General Hertzog marched in with the collective resignation of the Cabinet, Her Majesty's brother saw to it that he marched right out again with a mandate to form a new Cabinet. This the General instantly did, appointing the Rt. Hon. H. W. Sampson to be Minister of Posts & Telegraphs, and recalling all his other ministers to their posts. Unofficially the peppery Prime Minister expressed his satisfaction that the Laborites have now come out squarely on the issue of social...
...election of the first group of the Class of 1930 to Phi Beta Kappa will take place this afternoon, when the society assembles in the Faculty Room of the Union at 2 o'clock. O. S. Loud '29, first marshal of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, will preside...