Word: conventioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While the teachers were bickering over such momentous musical concerns, a situation arose for them all to feel anger on the same side. Author of the situation, and its villain, was fat, horny-handed James C. Petrillo, who heads the Chicago Federation of Musicians and forbade them last fortnight to...
If Langdon-Davies' political reporting presents a conventional Leftist picture, his casual digressions on Spanish temperament, Spanish intellectuals, anarchists, dancing, Barcelona slums, are fresh and vivid. Best is his account of a visit, before the revolution, to Barcelona's vice-ridden Fifth District. Although he had "read about...
Whether the New Deal and its farmer friends would long be satisfied with such roundabout methods remained a prime question. Red-hot for revival of the AAAct, Supreme Court or no Supreme Court, is the New Deal's most potent rural friend, the American Farm Bureau Federation. To its...
It was this same McConnell group which founded Mayflower as a logical development from their private syndicate operations. Management of the trust was in the hands of one man-President McConnell-who got handsomely paid if he made money, got nothing if he lost. In Manhattan he lives at the...
Under the rival Giannini plan the "non-cans" would have received better treatment at the start but insurance experts testified that the Carpenter plan would be better for them in the end. Declared Judge Willis last week: "We must all concede that in such obscure matters as pertain to the...