Word: downers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over the 160,000 other French workers still sitting down the Cabinet while speaking softly, was brandishing a big stick, and by Sunday every sit-downer had stood up, gone home. On Monday union chiefs ordered work resumed Tuesday...
Employing Radcliffe girls in their many female singing and dancing parts and even in the orchestra, the Lowell House Musical Society will give Henry Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas" under the direction of Courtlandt canby, Conductor and Alan Downer, Dramatic Director, at 8:30 o'clock this evening in the Lowell Dining Hall...
Under such circumstances, the Congress last week contented itself with passing one big resolution: a blanket rejection of All-India Federation. The United Provinces cabinet who had so defiantly resigned as a curtain raiser, quietly withdrew their resignations as a curtain downer, carried on this week under the British Raj. Dispatches announced that the resigned native cabinet of Bihar, after a little further haggling with their British governor, were also expected to withdraw their resignations. Thus His Majesty's Government, whose game is quietly to keep pressing mercurial Indians into the mold of Sir Samuel Hoare's Constitution...
Nothing Sacred (David O. Selznick) is a spirited little comedy about a girl who is slowly dying of radium poisoning. It is a comedy because Hazel Flagg (Carole Lombard) and Dr. Downer (Charles Winninger), her Warsaw, Vt. physician, know that she isn't really dying at all. But by the time Downer finds he has made a mistake in his diagnosis, the story about Hazel has appeared in the New York Morning Star. Reporter Wally Cook (Fredric March) takes her away from Warsaw. He is in trouble with his managing editor (Walter Connolly) and Hazel is his peace offering...
...stoned on several occasions, the New York City police have given a demonstration of strike work which might well be studied by Chicago. One day last week 2,000 strikers & sympathizers sat down on streetcar tracks outside a Brooklyn police station, refused to budge. As soon as one sit-downer was removed, another took his place. Women fought, scratched, screamed. Policemen finally sent the sit-downers scrambling. At week's end 20 C. I. O. unions pledged $100,000 war chest to carry on against the "miniature Tom Girdlers of the shipbuilding industry...