Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prime mover in National Cornstalks Processes, Inc.. was onetime Governor Frank Orren Lowden of Illinois. Last week, he became a stockholder, helped subscribe $500.000. Among other stock-holders : New York's Bernard Mannes Baruch, Chicago's Joseph Edward Otis, In-national Harvester's Herbert F. Perkins...
...first-hand information on the land of their origin from, a man who knows their distant cousins, many New York Negroes went last week to hear a speech by General Jan Christiaan Smuts, onetime Boer leader and South African Premier. They heard him describe native Africans as dignified, noble, contented with their socialistic tribal life; heard him decry attempts to foist upon them a white civilization that would make them only "inferior Europeans." Suddenly the audience sat up straight and winced. It had heard General Smuts...
Refreshed by a month-long armistice, Senate warriors last week climbed doggedly back into their trenches to finish the Tariff War. They swung into action with a skirmish on wool. The coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans wilted badly under the pressure of sectional interests. The wool rates went up, but not before Joseph R. Grundy, longtime tariff lobbyist, now Senator from Pennsylvania, had startled his comrades-in-arms with a display of tariff chivalry. A wool yarn manufacturer himself, he announced on the vote (35-to-29) which increased the duty on this commodity: "I am interested...
...with a sword, but with a rational plan." President William Green of American Federation of Labor journeyed into the South last week on a new crusade. His object: peaceful organization of disorganized Southern labor. His stipulation: admission by employers of their employes' right to organize...
...complication to unionizing the South: last week the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People renewed its drive to get the A. F. of L. to adopt a blanket policy permitting Negroes to join unions. The A. F. of L. at present has no Negro policy...