Word: forwardness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street lawyer of 35 whose tie vote will belong to Mayor LaGuardia and Fusion, can look down over his gavel at two sturdy old revolutionaries. Russian-born Baruch Charney Vladeck, last week slated to be the council's minority leader, is now general manager of the Jewish Daily Forward and belongs to the new American Labor Party (TIME, Nov. 15), but three of his 51 years were spent in Tsarist prisons. Another Fusion minority member elected by the American Labor Party in The Bronx was bull-necked Michael J. Quill, who once blew up Black-&-Tan lorries in Ireland...
...cleared him of charges in connection with a scandal at the National Bank of Belgium (TiME, Sept. 20 et ante). In his program speech last week, Premier Janson promised to continue the van Zeeland policy of keeping down prices and therefore the cost of living. He promised to carry forward van Zeeland's extension of unemployment insurance, health insurance and old age pensions...
...provide 500 cruise passengers with a 20 ft. by 28 ft. open-air tiled swimming pool with dressing rooms and showers for 50, a dance floor 20 ft. by 60 ft. raised three feet above the deck and lighted from below. The whole top deck between bridge and forward funnel, will become a "Beach Club" 150 ft. by 50 ft., with railside refreshment tables under gay umbrellas, surrounding pool and dance floor...
...June for the WPA theatre, were stopped on dress rehearsal night by a mysterious order from above. Now, without benefit of Government, they present it on their own bare stage for special performances. Author Blitzstein sits on the stage, plays his music, occasionally joins the actors as they step forward to sing or speak his pieces. If this method is from necessity-the famous, misnamed Russian Realistic Theatre uses it from choice and with stunning effect-it proves, nevertheless, that if a playwright has enough to say he needs neither sets nor costumes to help him say it. What...
...Flash" Gordon and George Clark have been high-scoring at the forward positions, and Roger Pierce and Max Manker have held down the guard berths capably. Harold Curtiss has shown himself a capable pass feeder from his center spot. William Calfee, Hamlin Williston, Harris Squibb, and Eric Witherby have also played in the two Adams games...