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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town of Kohler, started before the War, looks much like a Midwestern college town. Mr. Kohler built its dormitory-like American Club to house some 300 bachelor workers. Kohler Improvement Co. built its houses (mostly $5,000 and $7,000 homes) for Kohler workers at cost. Kohler Building & Loan Association took their first mortgages and Kohler Co. itself often took second mortgages. All a Kohler worker had to have was about 10% in cash. A town of handsome little homes. set back behind green hedges and green lawns on winding streets, Kohler has long been the perfect picture...
...Labor in San Francisco for years to come. If the strike had gone on long enough to require martial law in the city and forceful suppression of the strike San Francisco's Labor Unions might have been crushed. But enduring bitterness against Labor had not yet been built up when the unions about-faced. The city rejoiced that Labor had admitted its mistake, had voluntarily changed front. Real loser by the general strike was Harry Bridges, who lost his ten weeks domination over Labor's rank & file...
...draw Dictator Kemal's attention the British Ambassador at Istanbul. Sir Percy Lyham Loraine, Bart., took a sleeping car for Ankara, the new Turkish capital which Dictator Kemal has built among high hills far beyond the range of battleships firing from the coast. On his chosen ground Gazi talked Young Turkey to Sir Percy. The action of the Turkish coast guards, he declared, was fully justified...
...seats built in front of the Church of San Trovaso, a brilliant audience greeted the pageant and its cast. Umberto, Prince of Piedmont and heir to Italy's throne, gave Producer Reinhardt his congratulations. After four performances the "localization" of The Merchant of Venice, arranged to climax the biennial Venetian art exposition, closed...
Three years ago, heirs of the McFarlane brothers, who built the Opera House, presented it to Denver University. Ann Evans, Denver's Art patron, organized a scheme to make annual revivals there a reminder of the city's rowdy past. The revivals started two years ago when Lillian Gish played Camille. Last summer an audience in 1890 costume watched The Merry Widow. For last week's performance Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones selected Othello, persuaded Walter Huston to take a six-week vacation from Dodsworth in Manhattan to appear as the Moor with Nan Sunderland (Mrs. Huston...