Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unbarbed items in Pins & Needles, the revue produced by the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union, is a wistful number called Sunday in the Park, depicting the tribulations of the proletariat when it deserts New York's teeming streets for its teeming parks. A man who enjoys such simple proletarian pleasures is former Garment-Cutter David Dubinsky, president of I.L.G.W.U. Unlike many labor leaders, he would rather ride on a bicycle than bet on a bicycle race. Palm Sunday, stocky little President Dubinsky, attired in a leather windbreaker, was pedaling through New York's Central Park...
When C.I.O. voted, with Mr. Hochman abstaining, to call a constitutional convention this fall to form a permanent organization, President Dubinsky became less categorical: "The decision . . . creates a new situation. Until now, the C.I.O. . . has neither in its structure nor in its ultimate objectives been designed to be a permanent competitive organization in the American trade union field. . . . The question of our participation in such a convention or of joining such a new organization will be taken up and decided upon by our General Executive Board . .. late...
...House then rose for the Easter recess, and M. P.s had leisure to read other pertinent comments on Adolf Hitler made last week by his boyhood friend, Fritz Grunscheder, today working in a New Britain, Conn, brewery. Said Mr. Grunscheder: "I can remember lots of times when we would call Adolf over and tell him he could come with us to where there were some good apples to be snitched. But Adolf could never come. His father worked for the Government and it would be bad if he got caught. It was as if he had to set an example...
This week the monarch whom the elaborate-tongued Iranians often call "Most Lofty of Living Men," "Agent of Heaven in this World," "Brother of the Moon and Stars," will drive down Teheran's broad avenues, reflection of the glory of his reign, to famed Gulistan Palace. There the King of Kings will be pleased to stand in front of the $50,000,000, 17th-Century Peacock Throne and watch file past him diplomats, ministers, army officers, notables, all clasping their hands on wrists to show they carry no weapons, all bowing heads in profound deference to the August Presence...
...Fairbanks, who owns a freighter and a South Sea island and who "does what he does when he wants to do it," tries to convince Miss Dunne, highest star in the Broadway heavens, that she should shake the call of duty to her career and her family. His main hurdle lies in showing her what leeches and rodents are her family, which she keeps in antiques and good liquor. Success is his, by means of a rousing drunk, Hollywood's perennial ice-breaker, which occupies most of the picture...