Word: summoning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early in the week President Roosevelt called Governor Murphy on the telephone, authorized him to summon the war's opposing generals to a council table in the name of the President of the U. S. Under that pressure, General Motors abandoned its stubborn refusal to negotiate with the strike leaders until they had yielded up its captive plants. Twice had President Sloan rejected similar summonses by Secretary of Labor Perkins, but Executive Vice President Knudsen now wrote to Governor Murphy: "The wish of the President of the United States leaves no alternative except compliance...
...labor movement has hung in a suspense which was expected to be resolved at Tampa. Instead the convention delegates voted to: 1) affirm the Executive Council's suspension order; 2) direct the Executive Council to continue efforts at reconciliation; 3) empower the Executive Council to summon a special convention of the Federation if they should finally feel driven to adopt some "drastic procedure." This temporizing simply meant that the old leaders of Labor, adepts at dodging responsibility, were putting the next move up to John Lewis, shouldering off on him the blame if Labor should be split. A committee...
...produced when an audience which scores of British officials knew Mr. Baldwin had had with Edward VIII was unprecedentedly omitted from mention in the royal Court Circular next morning. British public life moves with such regularity in its accustomed grooves that for the Prime Minister, suddenly by telegraph, to summon members of his Cabinet to drop everything and rush to meet him at No. 10 Downing Street is a sign that the Empire is facing a national crisis comparable to threatened war and the Prime Minister gave that sign last week. He followed it by conferring with the Leader...
Bishop Berkeley once said, "Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human mind, and the summon bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman...
...railroad passes, replaced them with his own men. During the textile strike of 1934 he earned millowners' gratitude and Labor's hatred by declaring martial law, throwing picketers into barbwired concentration camps. This year Governor Talmadge enlarged his domination to include all State departments by refusing to summon a balky Legislature to pass an appropriation bill, proclaiming himself financial dictator of the State. That involved not only court fights, but also sending militia to drag the State Treasurer out of his office, summoning locksmiths to cut open the Treasury vaults...