Word: cliffords
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...union which controls 7,200 Boeing workers is Local 751 of the Aeronautical Mechanics Union, an affiliate of A. F. of L. Two months ago, the editor of the local's house organ, Aero Mechanic, got out a "sneak" edition loaded with dynamite. In it young, nervous Editor Clifford A. Stone had packed all the pent-up resentment of months. He charged that...
Other cases are devoted to samples from forty or more scholarly works, books about Harvard and the Loeb Classical Library. Showings of the great works of scholarship by many great Harvard teachers, George L. Kittredge, Charles H. Grandgent, E. K. Rand, George Foot Moore, Clifford H. Moore, Wilbur C. Abbot, George Santayana, and others are included...
...Oboler pays actors (his top: $1,000) and musicians, sometimes spends as much as $3,600 to put a show across. One of these costlier numbers was This Lonely Heart, for which he hired a full symphony orchestra to weave in a bit of Tchaikovsky. Like Clifford Odets, his opposite number in the theatre, Oboler cannot work without music, makes a point of listening to recordings of Beethoven, Moussorgsky, Sibelius and Debussy before settling into the creative groove...
...Paul George Dallwig of Chicago went to see Dr. Clifford Gregg, director of the Field Museum of Natural History, and asked if he, Mr. Dallwig, were getting to be a nuisance. Not at all, said Dr. Gregg. In fact, he would like nothing better than that Mr. Dallwig enlarge and organize his work, make it a regular Sunday feature. That was in 1936.Since then, spruce, grey Mr. Dallwig has become known to thousands of knowledge seeking Chicagoans as the museum's sprightly "Layman Lecturer." Last week, in top form, Mr. Dallwig swung into his fourth smash-hit season...
...Omaha two extraordinary Republicans boarded the train. W. W. Waymack, brilliant prize-wanning editor of the Des Moines Register & Tribune, and handsome Representative Clifford Hope of Kansas, ranking minority member of the House Agriculture committee, had come to compound the Willkie farm speech at Omaha. Observers held that the result was in many ways Willkie's most effective speech yet. The theme: that the problems of the farmer, laborer, businessman, investor, consumer are all one problem; that prosperity cannot come to one group only; that the national welfare depends on a unified attack, a unified consideration...