Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of California's most substantial citizens stood behind two labor petitions that made the biggest news, promised the bitterest November fights. Nominally sponsored by an organization known as the Women of the Pacific, but advertised in a daily front-page box by the potent Los Angeles Times, was a law providing for compulsory incorporation of unions, publicity of union finances, disqualification from union office of all noncitizens (i. e., Maritime Boss Harry Bridges), civil suits against unions for strike damages, jail sentences up to ten years for disobedient union officers. This proposal has a companion piece aimed...
...back to look further into charges of WPA support for Mr. Barkley and also into the operation of Governor Chandler's State machine. Mr. Chandler (see p.11) frankly admitted to the Committee that State employes had been chosen chiefly from among his friends. But the Committee's biggest news was Tennessee. Upon scanning an investigator's report on that State, the Committee quickly sent him-and six more men-back for further details. While Senator 'Walsh huffed & puffed about "worse than gutter politics," Senator Sheppard on almost the eve of Tennessee's election issued...
...years, Ford's for 30, Chrysler's since the firm was incorporated in 1925, General Motors' on 127 projects. And as the products of those companies girdle the globe, so do the works of Albert Kahn, Inc. Employing a normal staff of 400, his is the biggest private architectural machine in the world. Its greatest job: supervising the creation of an estimated $2,000,000,000 worth of factories in Russia during the first Five-Year Plan...
...indifferent eyebrows (TIME, Sept. 21, 1936). In other cities, galleries have prudently gone slow on WPA exhibitions, waiting for quality to accumulate. Last week Chicago's great Art Institute, able to skim the cream from more than three years' work by local artists, opened the biggest, handsomest WPA show yet held...
...when famed Maestro Arturo Toscanini snubbed Germany's Bayreuth Festival and decided to conduct in Salzburg instead, Salzburg's annual festival became Europe's biggest single tourist attraction. To it flocked not only music-lovers from all the world, but a great horde of gawping sightseers, visiting royalty, swank socialites...