Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Administration victory was recorded in Alabama's Fifth Congressional District when labor-baiting Representative Joe Starnes, the Dies Committeeman who once proposed to investigate Playwright Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) as a Communist,* was defeated by State Legislator Albert Rains. The C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee, which had been quietly undermining Starnes in war-booming Gadsden (pop. 36,975) indulged in no loud boasting. Its prime target is lumbering Martin Dies himself, who must fight for his job in Texas' Second District next July...
Methodist leaders like Evanston's Dr. Ernest Fremont Tittle, Detroit's Dr. Henry Hitt Crane, Pasadena's Dr. Albert Edward Day, New York City's Dr. Ralph Washington Sockman are uncompromising pacifists. These pacifists led the last General Conference (at Atlantic City) to declare: "The Methodist Church, although making no attempt to bind the consciences of its individual members, will not officially endorse, support or participate in war. . . . Agencies of the Church shall not be used in preparation for war. . . . Buildings of the Church, dedicated to the worship of God, shall be used only for that...
...hour later Wayne Taylor emerged, informed newsmen that Sewell Avery had bluntly refused to turn over his plant. Messrs. Taylor and Carusi seemed nonplussed. They telephoned Commerce Secretary Jesse Jones in Washington, huddled with U.S. District Attorney J. Albert Woll in Chicago's old Post Office. Presently they returned, accompanied by U.S. Deputy Marshal William H. McDonnell and eight gun-toting deputies. Facing the armed squadron, Sewell Avery politely told Marshal McDonnell that he would not surrender. Then a call went out to Camp Skokie Valley, just north of Chicago...
...iron hand. In the late '30s, Ward's became famous in the business world for the number of top executives who left because of violent disagreement with "the Old Man." (Some of them: Walter Hoving, now president of Manhattan's swank Lord & Taylor; Brigadier General Albert J. Browning, now a top man in Lieut. General Somervell's A.S.F. ; Raymond H. Fogler, now president of W. T. Grant Co.) By turns a kindly and domineering man, Sewell Avery once said: "If anybody ventures to differ with me, of course, I throw them out of the window...
Novak studied under Julins Shalloff at the New England Conservatory of Music and at one time was a soloist with Albert Spalding and the Worcester orchestra. At present he is associated with the Harvard Music Club...