Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...without pieces." High Politics. Fitted into the new C. I. O. jigsaw are such diverse unions as Mr. Lewis' essentially conservative United Mine Workers, Sidney Hillman's liberal Amalgamated Clothing Workers, Harry Bridges' radical International Longshoremen & Warehousemen, Joe Curran's turbulent National Maritime Union. Their common, immediate aim, to organize the mass production industries, holds them soundly together, but there are dissents within the whole. Last week one of these dissents popped to the surface when Vice Chairman Sidney Hillman called upon the delegates to adopt a new constitution which they had never seen...
...issued invitations to Republican Governor-elect James of Pennsylvania and other interested parties to come and discuss the third city's financial plight. Mayor Wilson revealed that his deficit now tunes up to some $40,000,000. Happier news for Mayor Wilson last week was the quashing, by Common Pleas Judge Harry S. McDevitt, of 21 indictments charging him with misbehavior in office...
...various other verbal flights by Critics Roger Fry, Thomas Craven, et al., Author Herter turns a cold and logical eye. Her shrewdest stroke is in showing up the common legend that the Cubists got their program from a famous sentence of Cezanne. The actual sentence: "You must see in nature the cylinder, the sphere, the cone. . . ." It is not recorded that Cezanne ever in his life referred to the "cube." yet by what Author Herter takes to be a monumental feat of autosuggestion, many writers on art misquoted him to include it, the artist's interest in essential geometry...
...hilltoppers and hunt-club members alike) is held-under the auspices of the National Foxhunters' Association-for the purpose of holding field trials, a hound show and horse show. At Winchester, Ky. last week swank Eastern socialites, sombreroed Texas ranchers, rich Oklahoma Indians and Kentucky hillbillies met on common ground at the 45th annual foxhunters' jamboree. Competitions were open to any foxhunter who had paid his $5 membership fee to the national association...
...first thought the idea of a physicist and an historian thrashing out a common subject over a conference table seems rather futile. Yet last year there was a highly successful discussion in Eliot House comparing the scientific method with that of the social sciences. Perhaps more feasible, however, is a joint discussion among kindred fields. Next week, for instance, the tutors and tutees in History, History-Literature and Music will approach the question of patronage of the arts, presumably from three different points of view...