Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Uselessly, the delegates, representing an overwhelming majority of Pennsylvania labor, invited A. F. of L. to do likewise. For the convention itself was a measure of how deep and bitter Labor's division had become. Last month, when William Green ordered the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor to purge itself of disloyal C. I. O. unions, abetted by its president, John A. Phillips, the Federation instead constituted itself the 18th State Industrial Union Council organized by C. I. O. At its convention last week, attended by more than 1,000 delegates representing some 500,000 organized workers mainly...
...group was young Ivan Dzerzhinsky, whose melodious, folk-song-inspired opera And Quiet Flows the Don was contrasted favorably with that "muddle of sound, raucous cacophony and lascivious naturalism," Lady Macbeth. Most talented of the new group was shy, sandy-haired, 24-year-old Tykon Krennikov, whose deep, contemplative First Symphony was hailed by critics at its Manhattan première last year as one of the finest contemporary works of its kind. Also basking in official favor were long-nosed Dmitri Kabalevsky, Caucasus-born Lev Knipper, and aging, conservative Nicolas Miaskovsky, who was composing symphonies long before...
...Speaking at Gainesville, Ga., Franklin Roosevelt roundly declared that wages and the standard of living in the deep South...
...years later, to the amazement of its 300 inhabitants, Gilbert Gable appeared at Port Orford, Ore., formed six companies to promote it as the only natural deep-water harbor on the rugged coast between Puget Sound and the Golden Gate. Fifty-four years before, Congress had appropriated $150,000 to develop Port Orford as a harbor of refuge, but nothing was done. Gilbert Gable proceeded to spend $750,000 doing it, most of the money going for a huge breakwater dock, an administration building, a new lumber mill...
...steel companies, two movements opposed to industrialism also got under way. One was the type represented by General Robert Toombs, tousle-haired, unreconstructed, uncompromising old Confederate who refused to take the oath of allegiance and who used to stalk around the lobby of Atlanta's Kimball House, deep in his cups, delivering his matchless tirades against the North. The other was the tvpe represented by the nervous, embattled Tom Watson of Thomson, only nine years old when the war ended, who began as a champion of the poor farmers, became a Populist candidate for President, and wound...