Word: dales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shorter hours, longer pay, group protection, a fixed scale of wages to abolish discriminatory employment-such were the keynotes of a cry for the unionization of the U. S. aviation industry sounded last week by Dale ("Red") Jackson, part-possessor of the world's unofficial endurance refueling record (TIME. Aug. 12). With L. H. Atkinson, until recently sub-executive for Universal Air Lines, he sent out the first of 140,000 letters to pilots, mechanics, apprentices and student flyers to get them to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. They seek to promote brotherly fellowship, make working conditions...
Mendel, Inc. This shenanigan about a Jewish plumber who invents a machine which will fulfill all the impersonal obligations of a housewife, has an expert Kosher trio in Joe Smith, Charles Dale and Alexander Carr (who used to play Perlmutter to Barney Bernard's Potash). Such guffaws do they elicit that cautious critics murmurously compare the play to Abie's Irish Rose...
...formal opening of the heralded Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan (TIME, Sept. 16). Invitations had been sent to many a socialite and artist. With Sir Joseph was his daughter Dorothy, more of a modern art enthusiast than he. Around them were Collectors Duncan Phillips and Chester Dale; Lee Simons, onetime editor of Creative Art (TIME, July 9, 1928); Norman Bel Geddes, jack-of-all-design; William Cropper, arch-rebel draughtsman; Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr.; Editor Frank Crowninshield (Vanity Fair); Director Alfred Hamilton Barr Jr. On the walls were hung 98 canvases by the four "old masters" of modern...
...Modiglianis were pompously hung and framed. Well-tailored attendants mingled with the visitors, distributed lavish programs. The lenders of the canvases to the exhibition included Editor Frank Crowninshield of smartchart Vanity Fair, Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, Dealers Paul Reinhardt and John F. Kraushaar, Capitalist Sam Adolph Lewisohn. They gave an aura of respectability to the exhibition which might have amused the little, consumptive painter. People who would not have been seen talking with him now pay $20,000 for his canvases, eulogize him over their teacups as a great genius. For in his day Modigliani was the butt of ribaldry...
...Dale applied the yardstick. The wife of Businessman-Collector Chester Dale, she writes articles for magazines, recently published a book on Modigliani...