Word: fashionedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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*Just how old-fashioned this sort of Labor fighting has become, Chicago's City Council demonstrated last week. The Council agreed to build a grandstand for memorial services for ten Little Steel strikers who were shot & killed by Chicago police on Memorial Day, 1937.
At Snow Hill, the patrician estate of socialite J. W. Y. Martin outside Baltimore, last week hawkers peddled rubber horses, balloons, trinkets. Three-card monte games flourished on the lawn in front of the pink colonial mansion. Bookmakers Saratoga Joe, Honest Dan and three-score of their colleagues, forbidden to...
Union Pacific (Paramount) is constructed, from sandbox to coupling pins, of cinematic materials as standard as those that went into the railroad it celebrates. Its most dramatic sequence is a new version of Thomas Alva Edison's 1903 production, The Great Train Robbery, the first story-telling picture ever...
Meanwhile coal reserves diminished to a point where industry would begin to feel a real shortage within a fortnight. Railroads in mining areas, deprived of their biggest traffic, laid off men by thousands. Big B. & 0., in worse plight for its own coal supplies than most, began to "confiscate" (and...
Manhattanites who wished to supplement Knoedler's nudes with something contemporary and three-dimensional could see distinction in both respects at the Buchholz Gallery. The exhibition was of bronzes by Charles Despiau, 65, a quiet, interminable workman who has gradually taken rank as one of the two or three...