Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the convention and The Club met simultaneously at Houston, Texas. Assembled in the lofty new Coliseum were 600 career men of Labor. Mostly they were gentlemen toilers who had worked up to union office and comfortable expense accounts. Plain men seated along pine tables, they daily went through the conventional motions indicated by their President William Green, a plain man whose career had been a model of its kind. At evening the placid delegates rejoined their wives, retired to the movies or enjoyed simple sociability in hotel rooms. A minority frequented the convention's one play spot...
...those days British peers, squires and gentlemen were the nearly undisputed masters of the State, and in 1873 Mayor Joseph Chamberlain of Birmingham was considered "vulgar." He acknowledged that he was a Radical, and was darkly suspected of being both a socialist and a republican -that is, a traitor to Her Majesty Queen Victoria. So disgusted was Punch with the Radical, whom it contemptuously called "Joey," that he was caricatured as a clown, caught in the act of applying a red-hot poker labeled "Socialism" to the behind of a Briton reading the Times with a checkbook under...
...regulate private security flotations, was last week told by Vice President Charles W. Kellogg of Virginia Electric & Power that private selling is short-sighted even though it does avoid underwriting costs and the irks of registration. Said he: "The buyers for the large life insurance companies are very canny gentlemen. They know just about what it costs to get an issue registered. They know just about what the spread that the company will pay to an investment banking group to sell their bonds will be. And they insist on getting both these things themselves in the price they offer...
...attacks on Neville Chamberlain were made almost entirely from extremely safe distances of several thousand miles, notably by certain Manhattan radio news broadcasters. Of these. Johannes Steel, a German agent on mysterious missions in Brazil until the Nazis came into power, was the most caustic: "Good evening ladies and gentlemen. So they call it peace! . . . They call it peace because the victim, not being able to save itself from its friends, cannot face the enemy alone. They call it peace because the victor received the spoils before instead of after battle! . . . The England of Mr. Chamberlain is not the true...
...popular among his boys, whom he calls "Ol Bill" or "Ol Joseph." Long abandoned is the old school rule that "no student .shall sing any Negro or low song," but such practices as smoking and drinking are strictly regulated. Prime aim of the school is to turn out "Christian gentlemen." Its honor system is scrupulously enforced. The boys themselves once stoned from the grounds a student caught stealing...