Word: ago
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artie had discovered that "it's necessary to give an audience some familiar points of reference before you can expect it to go along on new things." He thought a band made up just about like the one that had first won him fame & fortune ten years ago (eight brasses, five saxophones and a rhythm section), playing old Shaw specials like Begin the Beguine, Frenesi and Dancing in the Dark, might lure his strayed followers back into the tent. Once they were in, perhaps he could give them Prokofiev, Ravel, Berezowsky et al. in small doses...
...finals, tournament-wise Dorothy Kielty, winner of last year's Western, met her match. Mrs. Dorothy Germain Porter, 25-year-old housewife of Westmont, N.J., beat her 3 and 2, became the first mother to take the title since Glenna Collett Vare took it 14 years ago...
...abrupt end last week. The settlement closely fitted the publishers' terms. President Woodruff Randolph of the A.F.L. International Typographical Union told his strike-weary printers to accept a $10 weekly wage boost (to $95.50)-the same offer he had high-handedly ordered them to reject six months ago, after Chicago's Local 16 had approved it. The strikers had lost $13 million in wages, and the I.T.U. had paid $1 i million in strike benefits and costs. Consensus of the printers: "We took a beating...
...week), but the real issue was Randolph's defiance of the Taft-Hartley Act ban on closed-shop clauses in contracts. Randolph dropped a formal contract, asked publishers to agree to "conditions of employment" continuing the prized closed shop that Chicago's printers first won 50 years ago. In many cities, publishers agreed; in Chicago, they refused...
When the Communists captured Shanghai, Wang returned to resume editing Ta Rung Pao. Reporters who unwittingly persisted in the old independent approach to the news were quickly set straight. A fortnight ago, Editor Wang and one of his staffers pleaded guilty on Page One to an "irresponsible attitude" in covering a speech by Communist General Chou Enlai. The irresponsibility: publishing the story without submitting it in advance for revision by "the person involved...