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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fool Was I"; some of the best lyrics we have heard in any college show are those to "We Planned It That Way." Throughout the show, the choreography, though it sometimes descends to every man for himself, is amusing and particularly so in the finale to the First Act in which hirsute and be-gartered athletes disport themselves in the can-can; another outstanding number is a waltz ballet featuring David S. Glueck, '39, and David J. Conroy...

Author: By V. F. Jr., | Title: The Playgoer | 3/25/1939 | See Source »

...Catholic organizations which let U. S. lawmakers know how Catholics feel about public issues. TIME is satisfied, however, that it has in general given the Church its due for its official stand on social welfare matters. As for Child Labor, the N. C. W. C. favors its limitation by act of Congress. Most U. S. Catholic bishops are against the Child Labor Amendment, whose language they believe would permit Congress to invade the home and the school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 20, 1939 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...also was the suggestion that 65-year-old, weighty (216-lb.) Alexander Fell Whitney might become the overall head of U. S. Labor. White-topped, lively Mr. Whitney runs his rich Brotherhood with iron hand, vehemently opposes A. F. of L.'s proposed Wagner Act amendments, has no great love for David Robertson whom John Lewis also suggested for the biggest job U. S. Labor could offer. For fun Trainman Whitney keeps deer, rabbits, pigeons, a raccoon, lovebirds, canaries and pheasants, reads Tennyson, deluges the press with polished expositions of his views. Last week in Cleveland he agreed with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: I Am Counting On You | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

...that they had been sold out to the most reactionary elements in the union, threatened to desert en masse. Meantime Henry Ford's unionized competitors resigned themselves to battle not with a union but between two unions claiming the same name, same contracts, same prerogatives under the Wagner Act...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Clean Union | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Reinhold A. Faust, 74, of No. 2517 North Richmond Street, Chicago, last week told where he was on the night of Nov. 16, 1917. He was at the opera, hearing Galli-Curci sing in Dinorah* in Chicago's Auditorium Theatre. Midway through the first act, Galli-Curci left the dim-lit stage. Reinhold Faust left his seat in Row K, four off the aisle. A woman saw flame, and screamed. Chicago Fireman (now Fire Commissioner) Michael J. Corrigan grabbed a bomb, yanked out its phosphorescent fuse, rushed outside before it could spray buckshot among the 2,200 people present...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Box No. 198 | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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