Word: auditorium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 600 labormen filed into Denver's cavernous municipal auditorium one morning last week and settled back for the 1937 convention of the American Federation of Labor. It was A. F. of L.'s 57th, the fourth held in Denver. There in 1894 the late Samuel Gompers received his first and only defeat for the A. F. of L. presidency. There in the same building 1 6 years ago William Green, then the inconspicuous pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, uprose to nominate John L. Lewis for the A. F. of L. presidency...
This week, its bishops and deputies meeting respectively in Masonic Temple and Taft Auditorium, the convention was to tackle some of the problems which have been on its docket not only since the last convention three years ago, but for two or three years before that. Among them...
...last week had excitement of a different sort. For the first time in many months, the Spanish Cortes (parliament) met, for the first time in history it did not sit in the traditional semicircle, divided physically as well as spiritually into Left. Centre and Right, but in an ordinary auditorium set up on the trading floor of Valencia's silk exchange, the Lonja de la Seda...
...Irwin Raisz will lecture at 2:00 o'clock this afternoon on the history of maps. This lecture will be held in the auditorium of the Institute of Geographical Exploration and wil be opened to the public free of charge...
This coming week in Denver, Bill Green, by now 64, somewhat plumper, a deal more amiable, will gavel to order his 13th annual A. F. of L. convention. There in the big grey municipal auditorium some 600 accredited delegates and a host of other labormen will assemble in what is still Labor's only national congress. The principal item on the agenda is the man who saved Bill Green from innocuous obscurity, and day after day, in the redundant, turgid oratory so dear to old-time labor leaders, John L. Lewis will be damned and double-damned...