Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whither last week's spectacular doings might lead was more than any seasoned labor observer dared hazard. Realists in both camps knew that the original issue -craft v. industrial unionism-was nearly dead, that Bill Green's new issue of de mocracy v. autocracy was stillborn. The big problem remaining was how to reconcile the personal power and ambitions of a handful of potent personalities. But one thing was certain: the will for peace is stronger today in both A. F. of L. and C.I.O. than at any time in the past two years...
...highest wages paid to miners in the Westphalia fields are paid by the French-owned de Wendel properties. This famed international munitions trust uses cast-iron props and other gadgets considered "advanced" in Europe throughout its Friedrich Wilhelm Mine. There the average miner's monthly wage is 210 marks ($84.35) and ne rents nis nouse and garden from the de Wendels for 24 marks per month...
Censorship De Luxe, While Stalin was still seeking recognition of his regime by President Roosevelt, correspondents in Moscow could be of immense service by tinting their dispatches favorably to influence U. S. opinion, but Mr. Lyons thinks that once recognition was achieved the State has found it convenient to jockey out of Russia nearly all the more experienced U. S. correspondents who know too much about the last 20 years. Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinoff, charges Mr. Lyons, secured his own dismissal in 1934, and he thinks that today the Kremlin prefers to have in Moscow diplomatic and other representatives...
...Club de Femmes (Jacques Deval), made in France, is a naive, sometimes sad, sometimes merry, typically Gallic approach to a theme similar to that of Maedchen in Uniform, Eight Girls in a Boat and other film treatments of repressed girlhood. Manhattan censors promptly spotted Sapphic overtones and more frankness than young girls ought,to show, ordered several cuts. Its U. S. sponsors, Arthur Mayer and Joseph Burstyn, gloomily anticipated even severer censorship in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kansas...
...recognition that painting of a certain discreet integrity is still permitted in the Reich, the third-prize award had its informative virtues. Devotees of surrealism would have preferred two unquestionably brilliant, fantastic paintings by Spanish Salvador Dali: Métamorphose de Narcisse and Soft Construction With Boiled Beans, 1936, whose agonized self-torn figure, partly carcass, called by the artist a "Premonition of Civil War," was one of the amazingly few paintings which reflected current world passions. To U. S. art enthusiasts several challengers appeared in the lively array of paintings by 107 U. S. artists: Edward Hopper...