Word: veterans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city's conservative citizenry who earlier in the year were fearful that a united labor slate would sweep the field, was Richard W. Reading, long-time city clerk. The C. I. O. candidate was an oldtime Democrat named Patrick O'Brien, Michigan's 69-year-old veteran attorney general who made his liberal name as circuit judge during the copper mine strikes in Michigan before the War. A. F. of L. belatedly entered John W. Smith, who was Detroit's mayor in the middle 1920s and has been trying to get back into this office...
...snubbed Wyndham Mortimer, veteran first vice president and leader of the opposition, by upping young Richard Frankensteen, hero of the "Battle of the Overpass" at the Ford plait, to a new job as assistant president. He ordered Robert Travis transferred from the powerful Flint (Mich.) local, prepared to split that local's 30,000 members into five groups. He fired Frank Winn, U.A.W.'s able press agent. He fired an organizer who called a strike vote in a General Motors plant. By this time it was apparent that President Martin's long-awaited purge was in full...
Chicago Daily News's able China veteran A. T. Steele was last week the only correspondent to reach Shantung's Han. "It was evident." he cabled, "that General Han is a worried and unhappy War Lord-not the self-confident militarist this correspondent met on previous visits here...
Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle announced he had just appointed a committee of seven lawyers to study criminal procedure in Pennsylvania. Veteran Harrisburg Newspaperman George Her Fisher asked: "Why don't you appoint a layman on it?" Governor Earle snapped back: "O. K., you're on, George." The appointment was made official...
...Alexandre Bisson. Last Madame X in pictures was Ruth Chatterton (1929). First produced on Broadway in 1910, revived in 1927, the play has been filmed thrice as Madame X, often approximated under other titles. Hiding her ''shame" under the historic pseudonym this time is Gladys George, stage veteran and no cinemamateur...