Word: bard
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Behind a lot of senseless clamor, the critics of labor had one essential point: labor is getting time-and-a-half for hours worked over 40 hours a week and often double time on Sundays and holidays even within the 40 hours. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard admitted that overtime payments on $56,000,000,000 worth of war contracts might amount to $4,000,000,000. In short, labor has a good thing in the war, a better thing than any other large group except possibly the farmers, a good thing that looks bad compared...
...Howard Smith, Carl Vinson, Thurman Arnold, and Ralph Bard, the anti-labor stampede would seem to revolve around the issue against the 40-hour week and the closed shop. Actually, it is much more than that. It is an extremely clever and back-handed attempt to kill Philip Murray's labor-management plan. These men who have been waging an "undeclared war" against labor on the floor of Congress and in the pages of the daily press are like scheming murderers who start a row in one part of town to cover up their real crime in another part...
Died. James Buchanan Elmore, 85, "The Bard of Alamo," one of the popular poets of the '90s; on his farm near Alamo, Ind. He enjoyed a latter-day revival when newspaper columnists reprinted him for the sake of such lines as: "He absconded to Cincinnati, and dentistry took, And left a true love he wilfully forsook...
Sibelius: Tapiola (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sergei Koussevitzky conduct ing; Victor; 4 sides). The Finnish bard's bleak saga of his native forests, sturdily recounted by the Bostonians...
...Charles Jenkins," wrote Schoolteacher John, "married a Russian girl and Timoshenko (Timothy Jenkins) is their eldest son. Timo's grandfather was the Rev. Caractacus Jenkins, a fine nonconformist preacher in both English and Welsh . . . and he was also a Welsh bard...