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Word: conventioners (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Terrorized Teachers | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Briton in Spain | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FARMERS: 1937 Model | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Abandoned Mayflower | 12/21/1936 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Mutual Mess (Cont'd) | 12/14/1936 | See Source »

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