Word: duals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...came Albert the Good, a dual biography of Victoria and Albert by Mr. Bolitho which first caught everyone's eye because it was illustrated with gaudy, excruciating Victorian color plates and valentines-these discreetly printed with not a single reference to them in the text. This clever method of flash-sale got people to buy what they found to be just about the best Royal Family book since Strachey's Queen Victoria. Next year Biographer Bolitho did England's affluent Jew, a stuffily imposing Alfred Mond: First Baron Melchett. By last year he was the Royal Family...
...deemed such action is advisable." By that simple authorization the C.I.O. formally set itself up as a rival federation of labor to the American Federation of Labor. Last year when A. F. of L. leaders suspended C.I.O. unions, they charged that C.I.O. was an attempt to set up a "dual organization," a charge that was indignantly denied. Last week when the news reached the Federation's President William Green, he looked sick and said I-told-you-so: "It was clearly evident from the beginning that this objective would be finally reached, that the C.I.O. would move...
...believed, however, that the dual authority could endure, that more than one national labor organization could permanently survive. So last week both sides prepared for the task of destroying each other. The A. F. of L. sent out orders that all C.I.O. sympathizers in A. F. of L. unions should be expelled. The A. F. of L.'s Structural Iron Workers Association was authorized to organize steel fabricating plants in competition with the C.I.O.'s steel drive. Plans were announced for A. F. of L. membership drives in the cement, aluminum, food and filling station businesses...
...Harvard's swimming team: a dual meet against Yale, which had won 164 dual meets in succession, lost its last one to Navy in 1922; 39 to 36; at Cambridge. Biggest Harvard point-winner was Charles G. Hutter, who won two races...
...also holds the Harvard-Yale Dual Meet record in the 50 yard free style and the 100 yard free style. In the 440 free style swim Hutter holds the University record, and is a member of the 300 yard medley relay team which recently set a new National Intercollegiate record...