Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bakmeteff asked him to be secretary to the Embassy. They wouldn't be gone long. Six months, perhaps. This was in May. By November, Lenin had overthrown Kerensky and the Russian Embassy was left floating in Washington with no government to stand on. In 1922 the Embassy agreed to disband and each person went off on his own. Karpovitch was again without a job. He could have gone back to Russia, but he thought the Bolshevik movement would die out shortly. The bolsheviks lasted and Karpovitch, by remaining in this country, became an exile. During the next few years...
NEWS AND NEW REALEASES: Via airmail from New York: Count Basic will disband his orchestra and join Benny Goodman unless he is released from his contract with MCA. Right now the Count is on the road with Benny . . . Record of the week: Wings Over Manbattan by Charles Barnet (BLUEBIRD), and "atmosphere" tune on the line of Rhapsody in Blue. Very imaginative arranging of sophisticated melodic patterns built around the 32 bar theme. . . For a girl vocal trio that really swings (Andrews Sisters please note), listen to the Dandridge Sisters with Jinunie Lunceford on Red Wagon and You Ain't Nowhere...
...Corp. (which has a well-known record of antiunionism) and C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee. S. W. O. C. listed eleven grievances against Bethlehem. One of them was that Bethlehem stubbornly refused to comply with an order issued by the National Labor Relations Board to disband an alleged "company union." Ominously S. W. O. C. voted its officers full power to take any action necessary if Bethlehem did not hurry up and comply. C. I. O. head John L. Lewis pointed out that Bethlehem had more than $1.000,000,000 worth of Government contracts. What about...
...many listeners in the two Americas, Leopold Stokowski and his youngsters had by last week proved that 20 years is not needed to make an orchestra; that, anyway, the conductor is the thing. That proved, Stokowski announced that the Youth Orchestra would, at least temporarily, disband. It may be reassembled for a movie...
President Sullivan, 29 years old, is a Harvard graduate, a graduate of Boston University's school of law, court reporter for the Boston Globe. Reporter Sullivan helped to organize the Globe's Guild unit in 1937, saw it disband again last year when Globe employes, in an election ordered by the National Labor Relations Board, voted to get along without a union. He takes over the Guild with contracts in 150 news offices, 15 more than in 1939, but with a membership down this year (through elimination of non-paying members) from...