Word: abandoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chairman Hochman, a Brookwood alumnus and now vice president of the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union, explained that although a few A. F. of L. as well as C. I. O. unions supported Brookwood, these unions, conducting their own classes in industrial centres, had decided to abandon Brookwood until Labor united, made it Labor's "official" college. Meanwhile, no move will be made to sell the $115,000 Katonah estate...
...wash-out. Twelve diving beauties of the Lottie Mayer Disappearing Water Ballet submerge themselves in a fascinating manner; Hal Le Roy taps far better than it has been Boston's privilege to enjoy for some time, and three unknown young ladies throw themselves all over the stage with amazing abandon...
...King George V. Yet "traitor" was a word hurled at him over & over throughout the last 20 years. Because he spoke out loudly against British entry in the World War in 1914 he was ostracized as a traitor to the nation for years. Because he felt it necessary to abandon the principles of the old Labor Party in forming his coalition cabinet or ''National Government" in 1931, Ramsay MacDonald was called a traitor by most of British organized labor...
Last week foreign oil companies, already vastly excited over the expropriation, suddenly heard a rumor that the Board of Arbitration was about to decide in favor of the $7,000,000 wage increase previously ordered. Immediately the oilmen got together, announced that they would "suspend operations" and abandon the country rather than pay it. It was at that point that President Cárdenas, who has plenty of resolute and resourceful Indian blood in his veins, called in representatives of Mexican Eagle Oil Co., affiliate of British Royal Dutch-Shell which already controls 60% of Mexican oil production. He handed...
...Manhattan during the past fortnight more than 150 writers of varying prominence mounted the stage of a skyscraper auditorium and talked with characteristic author's abandon about themselves, their books, literature and each other. In Boston for six days nearly 60 authors followed each other on the platform of an improvised exhibition hall on the top floor of the Boston Herald-Traveler Building. Reason for this heavy concentration of literary talent was that the New York Times was sponsoring its second National Book Fair, the Herald-Traveler its first Boston Book Fair. The Manhattan show, held on the 38th...