Word: drews
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Weir was willing to consent to having "non-employes' " names on the ballots, so that A. F. of L.'s Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers Union delegates might be eligible, but he drew the line at voting "ex-employes." He also refused to abandon the secret ballot in favor of the petition system. Deeming that such procedure rules would give outside A. F. of L. men undue advantage, he brusquely notified the Board: "We must consider any arrangement with you terminated...
Died. Robert William Chambers, 68, novelist, painter, angler, hunter, collector of butterflies, armor and Japanese art; after an intestinal operation; in Manhattan. Son of a Brooklyn jurist, he studied art in Paris, drew sketches for Life, Vogue, began to write. Critics, impressed by The King in Yellow, his second book, were disappointed when he began turning out two perfumed and aseptic romances a year. (Total production: 60 novels.) "Literature! The word makes me sick!" he snorted. His painstaking historical research was largely lost on his millions of readers (Ashes of Empire, Cardigan). He was the first U. S. author...
...hear Lawrence Tibbett who fortnight ago was photographed for the first time with his new son*. Tibbett has been kept singing encores for an hour after his concerts were supposedly over. Stage-struck girls have blocked his dressing-room clamouring for autographs. In Seattle and Washington, D. C. he drew the biggest audiences those cities have ever known for a musical event...
...tall, 177 lb., who has shoulders as broad as any steer's, played on his Larned, Kans. high school football, baseball, basketball teams, does everything around the farm; Clista Millspaugh, 16, of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, who gets up at 6 a. m., milks ten cows before breakfast; Shirley Drew, 17, of Fayette, Mo. who is a freshman at Christian College, Columbia, Mo., has ridden her own horse since...
...backed a proxy campaign to oust the entire management of Hupp, particularly Directors Charles Hayden and Moritz Rosenthal who are potent in Hupp affairs. The proxy appeal to stockholders said: "It is sufficient ... to point out one record which shows that the president of your company, during two years, drew $250,000 of salary while the company reported losses in excess of $8,000,000. . . . Large stockholders . . . feel that it is about time that the management of the corporation is brought to the realization that it is a trustee for the stockholders and that the corporation is not the private...