Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...along the Labor front last week, the forces of A. F. of L. and C. I. O. were at last coming to grips in the internecine war foreshadowed by last summer's historic split. But while a united C. I. O. drove forward under Leader Lewis' command, A. F. of L.'s scattered armies seemed headed for certain brawls among themselves. Prime reason for the Labor split was John Lewis' threatened industrial-union encroachment on A. F. of L.'s jealously guarded craft union preserves. Yet last week, in a panicky rush to head...
...bound, the prisoners were forced to kneel in a row before a wall. Calmly their military escorts strolled over to them, drew pistols, plunked a bullet through the head of each at 15-sec. intervals. As each shot buried itself in the victim's brain a body slumped forward, inert. Only one prisoner required two bullets...
Among friends of John Russell Pope who sprang forward to defend him last week were Sculptor James Earle Fraser and President Archibald Manning Brown of the Architectural League. Their points...
...folk tunes. In it Hindemith expanded a song called Among Hills and Valleys into a whole astonishing movement. Bassoon, clarinet, oboe, horn and solo viola made an intricate, lovely fugue out of The Little Bird on the Fence. Critics considered the concerto "work-manlike," "resourceful," "poetic," "often amusing," looked forward to hearing it again in New York this week...
...Paul's Cathedral, which the growth of the city has left stranded, faced by an ugly parking lot, in a poor section. A leader among "broad" and liberal Episcopal churchmen, busy Bishop Hobson occupies himself with the state of his Church as a whole by heading a "Forward Movement" to deepen its spiritual life. Last week he announced his plan to do something in particular about the 23,000 Episcopalians of southern, Ohio...