Word: movements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Factionalism. Not all of Mr. Bridges' enemies are publishers and shipowners. He has had to battle the old-line A. F. of L. leaders as well as insurgents he himself boosted to power. As early as 1931 he ran head on into a movement to affiliate the San Francisco company unions with A. F. of L.'s International Longshoremen, headed by Manhattan's Joseph P. Ryan. Having stopped this movement, the Bridges group founded their own local, got a charter from Ryan in 1933. At the start of the 1934 strike Mr. Bridges was on the Ryan...
...settle the case. . . . Mae West can have half of Wallace's [Szatkus'] possessions. . . . Next week we expect to apply for an injunction that will tie up all of Miss West's property in California." That his client's share-Mae-West's-wealth movement might be halted by California's community property law proviso that a separated wife's earnings are her own was poohed by Mr. Szatkus' Los Angeles lawyer who said the clause was discriminatory sex legislation and might be found unconstitutional...
...businessmen, civic workers and Chambers of Commerce in more than 200 cities the Johnstown committee telegraphed: '"[We] desire to know if your community or group will send representatives to an organization meeting at a time and place to be decided for launching a national movement. Loyal Americans will not fail...
...Pennsylvania, who respects the workers' rights!" Pledging his assistance in wringing contracts from the steel companies. Governor Earle shouted: "And I say to you, if you want the American public to be with you- because your cause is righteous-stamp those Goddamn communists out of the labor movement...
Therefore last week the founder of the birth control movement, Mrs. Margaret (Higgins) Sanger (Slee), 53, greying and happy, did demobilize her squad of lobbyists called the National Committee on Federal Legislation for Birth Control...