Word: unionization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...well and wisely done that Hawaii's self-chosen nickname, "Paradise of the Pacific," has a special connotation for practicing Christians. They point to the Islands as a great practical demonstration of the faith. All sects except the Roman Catholics and Episcopalians are merged in Hawaii as the Central Union Church...
...last week Campbell Bascom Slemp, Virginia Republican, onetime Coolidge Secretary, strolled into the White House, conferred with President Hoover, strolled out again. Smiling wisely at expectant newsgatherers, he drove off to the Union Station, took a train for Richmond. That night a strange political alliance was born, a culmination of Virginia's "new era of humanity" (TIME, July...
...band played "Dixie." A platform was adopted without the bother of reading it. Mr. Slemp, exalted, cried: "I am in the presence of the dominant party of Virginia. Nationally there is no Democratic party. . . . They won't even sit down to dinner together. The Old Dominion joined the Union in 1928. I haven't gotten over it yet, I'm so happy! Now I don't like to conduct a losing campaign and I'm not going to. There is always a way if you know how. I know nothing about political science but the science of politics is different...
...York World last week aptly summarized: "War guilt is primarily a political question: on it are supposed to depend the German obligation to pay reparations, the disarmament of Germany in a Europe which remains armed, the occupation of the Rhineland. and prohibition of the union of Germany and Austria, and the demarcation of the eastern frontiers. When these five questions have been finally settled. Article 231 will cease to have any political value, and the sentimental objection to it will prevail...
When, last March, Elisha Walker's Blair & Co. merged with Amadeo Peter Giannini's Bank of America, N. A. (TIME, April 1), the union was generally interpreted as a combination of Giannini resources with Blair & Co. personnel. When, last month (TIME, June 3), Banker Giannini announced that his 60th birthday (1870-1930) would mark his retirement, evident became Elisha Walker's position as Heir Apparent. Thus last week's amalgamation of Bank of America, N. A., with Chatham and Phenix National Bank and Trust Co. might well have been regarded as First Result of Blair...