Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tomorrow evening Dr. Koussevitzky will present the sixth concert in the Sanders Theater series. Elly Kassman will appear as soloist in Saint-Saens' Piano Concerto in G minor, the feature work of a program including Haydn's Symphony in E flat, No. 99, and two Ravel works: the Suite "Mother Goose," and the second suite from the ballet "Daphnis and Chloe...
Some observers saw a bit of poetic justice in the race. Frannie King, first Harvard leg, fell flat on his face from what appeared to be a deliberate foul by the Yale runner. King regained his feet and raced on, yards behind...
Apparently the C.I.0. secretary turned to spit once too often. For suddenly at the start of this week Mr. Green announced that his executive council had expelled the United Mine Workers and two other C.I.0. unions, the Flat Glass Workers and the Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers. And the action had been taken in secret session three days before. Announcement was delayed pending the arrival of a certified copy of the miners' purged constitution...
Real as it was to old Mr. Green, the A.F. of L.'s action seemed strangely unreal. The Mine Workers had already read themselves out, as even the ouster resolution noted. Nor was it explained why of all C.I.O. unions the ax had fallen on the Flat Glass Workers and the Smelters, both relatively unimportant. Logical union to go and the one expected to go was Sidney Hillman's big Amalgamated Clothing Workers. But whatever the strategy may have been one thing was sure: it was not in the interests of labor peace...
...tried but failed to break it. But last week astonished spectators saw Benjamin Washington Johnson of Columbia, a little Negro who is long on medals but short on publicity, register three lightning flashes: the first heat in 6.2 sec., the semi-final in 6.1, the final in 6 seconds flat. To little Ben Johnson went the Rodman Wanamaker Trophy for the outstanding performance of the meet (Millrose Games) and round-the-world acclaim as the world's fastest human...