Word: drives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...killed." In Manhattan, Comrade Lovestone complained to police that "Stalinist agents, under the direction of special experts of the Russian G. P. U.," had burglarized his apartment and stolen documents which later showed up in Detroit and in the Communist Daily Worker. Oblivious to their neglected Ford organization drive, to the disruption sure to accompany further war, the feudists this week proceeded toward a special convention and an attempt by the ousted rebels to oust Homer Martin. Meanwhile, John L. Lewis grimly followed their farrago, continued to consider whether he could & should step in, put some one else in Homer...
...father to stop him from reproaching himself about her lost virginity; Dwyer taxed Carroll with it and the father threatened, bullied, finally accused him of making Barbara pregnant; when Dr. Littlefield, called in to examine the girl, learned of the incest, Carroll strangled the doctor, forced Dwyer to drive away with the body; during Dwyer's trial, Carroll had scared him into silence...
...Japanese drive against Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek last week reached a point only 95 miles down the Yangtze from his headquarters at Hankow. There the Japanese were hampered chiefly by a few bursted dikes ("Dynamited by the Chinese!" snarled the enraged invaders...
Back in the U. S. last week after a successful 15-day drive to raise $500,000 in England for the transfer of refugee children from Central Europe to Palestine, crusading Comedian Izzy Iskovitch, better known as Eddie Cantor, proudly let it be known that young Palestine settlers have named the town of Kvutzat Aryeh in his honor. The children translated his first name as "Aryeh." Its meaning: "The Lion." Informed that Motor Magnate Henry Ford had accepted the Grand Cross of the German Eagle from the anti-Semitic German Government on the occasion of his 75th birthday fortnight...
...latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise $100,000 for permanent quarters. Glad to get $80,000, the Festival committee commissioned Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen to design the Shed-a fan-shaped, open-sided building covering an acre and a half, its roof supported by three interior pillars and a colonnade. The Shed's acoustics...