Word: files
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...pledged continued loyalty to John Lewis. Packinghouse workers in Illinois, who had stood in sullen silence weeks ago while Villkie pleaded with them, heard Lewis, voted to go with him. Their action might upset the Chicago Democratic plurality, put Illinois safely in the Willkie camp. Many in the rank & file of the mineworkers in Illinois and Pennsylvania loyally got ready to follow their leader. As the voice of labor rolled back at him, John Lewis waited, and listened...
Republican Roosevelt. Unimportant file-closer in G. O. P. ranks, but still stumping loyally along for the party that offers him never even a dogcatcher's nomination, Colonel Teddy Jr. pounded podiums, roared that a Third Term for his distant relation would "destroy our national unity. . . . [The New Deal has] coddled Communists [and is] shot through with Communists or fellow travelers. . . . Mr. Roosevelt has fostered this cancerous growth. . . . He will never remove it. We must remove...
...been unintentional, it has nevertheless deprived forty ordinary members of almost all say as to what, when and why the productions of the Club shall be. Cheerfully resenting the dissipation of their ten-dollar membership fee toward a production they may have had no liking for, this rank and file has not been able to give their best to the Club...
...first time this fall, call slips of books, which have already been charged out, are placed in a special file, so that officials can have an exact record of the works in greatest demand. In this way, librarians can tell from day to day whether more duplicate copies of any works are needed...
...judicial complaisance Cuba's tough, bronze little boss, Fulgencio Batista, got the job of President of the Republic, which he had badly wanted ever since he was elected, but not certified, last July. Immediately after last summer's national elections, Batista's varied opposition began to file complaints of some 2,000 local voting frauds which threatened to delay the President-elect's inauguration many months until Cuba's courts could pass on the evidence. But last week Cuba's Supreme Court, which fortnight ago had admitted the legality of the 2,000 complaints...