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...have secured practical recognition of our union," claimed Leader Gorman. But the Winant Board specifically turned down blanket recognition of United Textile Workers union, proposed instead a "plant-to-plant" representation arrangement...
...three different leagues: Western, Texas, National. He pitched one game for the Cardinals in 1930, was sent back to Houston in 1931, returned to St. Louis in 1932. This summer he amused crowds by lighting a bonfire in front of the Cardinals' dugout, wrapping himself in a blanket, pretending to be an Indian. He went on strike last spring when the club refused to raise the salary of Brother Paul, a 21-year-old rookie who joined the team this year. A third brother, Elmer ("Goober") Dean, sold peanuts at St. Louis Sportsman's Park until Mrs. Dizzy...
Last night I was privileged to enjoy one of the more enjoyable privileges of being a stage star. I interviewed a handsome blonde editor of the Harvard Lampoon. He was wearing a ravishing blanket effect jacket supported by yards of flannel beneath, and brought up by a train of black and white shoes. Oh, but let me tell you the whole exciting adventure as it happened...
...flags. From a highly un authoritative source, I learned that Mr. Sopwith plotted his day's run from (1) a pair of basketball bloomers that one of the sailors insisted on wearing for his setting up exercises, (2) a bandana handkerchief used for wiping the moter, (3) a Navajo blanket, and (4) a pair of purple-striped shorts...
...Germany, Defendant van der Lubbe was beheaded, the others acquitted. In Judgment Day, all but one of the judges are about to be bullied into a blanket verdict of guilty when the Dictator (House Jameson) appears, encounters a sudden revolt, is shot dead. Even more boisterous and declamatory than Pulitzer Prize-winner Rice's We, the People, this sharply written melodrama suffers from one defect : real news events, when literally re-created in the theatre, tend to sound like burlesques...