Word: christman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cornet, but also did not disdain making noise simply by sucking the mouthpiece. For the back row Freddie Fisher got Pianist-Arranger Paul Cooper, Drummer Kenneth Trisko, Bull Fiddler Charles Koenig. The Schnickel-fritz Band did not cause much stir in Winona until a Decca representative named Elvin T. Christman heard the boys last January. He took them to Chicago to make their first four recordings, became their manager and sold them to the St. Paul tavern for $155 a week (union scale) and 40% of the gross. By last week. Winona people were motoring 103 miles to St. Paul...
Crisis came when Elizabeth Christman. secretary-treasurer of National Women's Trade Union League, arose with a resolution to revamp the Federation's traditional but awkward and archaic structure. She proposed a committee of seven "to map out general plans and policies for strengthening the united action of the regular craft unions, and at the same time for extending organization into those industries in which the present form of organization has obviously not been successful." The committee report on Miss Christman's resolution was likely to be epochal for the Federation...