Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington an "authoritative White House source" revealed that the successor to Ambassador William E. Dodd in Berlin, who handed in his resignation last summer, would be Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson. Next day even bigger news broke. The New York Times, whose White House pipe line is the envy and despair of other papers, revealed that Robert Worth Bingham, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (now recuperating from malaria at Johns Hopkins), would be replaced by Irish Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
...organizers attempted to enter the city, accompanied by reporters, photographers and observers from the Workers' Defense League and the Civil Liberties Union. The idea was to test the validity of Boss Hague's ordinances against distributing non-commercial literature. The organizers from New York had some difficulty getting into Jersey City at all, for almost as fast as they arrived waiting police and plainclothesmen put them back on the ferries and tubes to Manhattan. When their infiltration was nonetheless accomplished, they staged an orderly demonstration and were promptly picked up and whirled in waiting automobiles to the city...
...kosher meat products sold in New York City are union-made-except W. & I. Blumenthal's "Ukor" brand. Among methods used by the Butchers' Union to bring pressure on the company was picketing of retailers handling Ukor products. Among the retailers picketed was an East Side delicatessen shop owned by one Isaac Goldfinger. Mr. Goldfinger's staff consisted solely of Mr. Goldfinger. and after pickets with English and Yiddish placards had cut his trade by an estimated $100 per week he hied himself to court, won an injunction. The union promptly took the case...
...States forbid picketing in any form, some that allow direct picketing forbid secondary, many have no picketing statutes at all. Generally conceded, however, is the illegality of the "secondary boycott" which applies indiscriminate pressure on a third and disinterested party. In its decision last week the New York State Court of Appeals drew the line between seconds rv picketing and secondary boycott by order-ing the Butchers' Union to confine its pressure to the non-union products instead of to Mr. Goldfinger's whole business...
...York State, at least, the ultimate settlement of these contradictory rulings will rest on the interpretation placed by higher courts on the relationship between a publication and its advertising client. If the Guild can establish a "unity of interest" between a newspaper & its advertisers analogous to that between a manufacturer & a retailer, it will probably win. Union aim now is to picket in a manner which falls within the definition of secondary picketing, not secondary boycott...