Word: fourthly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, at the fourth annual convention of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, Lundeberg's seamen accompanied by licensed officers and firemen walked out when the meeting refused to seat delegates of a Tacoma local of A. F. of L. longshoremen, Harry Bridges' bitter enemies. Also grieved because Harry Bridges has eagerly taken shoreside unions into the Maritime Federation, Lundeberg snorted: "We don't want any more cannery workers telling us what...
...suffocate what is left of Jewish economic life. Main provisions: 1) Jewish concerns will be identified, probably with special signs on the place of business; 2) if one member of the board of a limited company is a Jew, the concern will be Jewish; 3) if one-fourth of the capital is owned by Jews, the company will be Jewish. Furthermore, "Aryan" trading with Jews will be considered a "deliberate demonstration against the Government's attitude on the Jewish question...
...than doubled its advertising lineage. By last year, its $1,000,000 annual losses had been reduced to $400,000. But Publisher Meyer was having too good a time with his newspaper to be fazed by such deficits. Last week, he celebrated the anniversary of his entry into the Fourth Estate by announcing the acquisition of the foreign news service and 14 features from the New York Herald Tribune, including Walter Lippmann, Dorothy Thompson, Mark Sullivan, Book Reviewer Lewis Garnett, Drama Critic Richard Watts Jr., Sports Columnist Richards Vidmer and the impeccable Lucius Beebe, to whom Washington dress...
...number and quality of great composers, the present is probably as rich as any period in history. In quantity of untutored, incompetent, fourth-rate composers, it is even richer. Because the public needs time to appreciate first-rate music and because even competent listeners cannot always, at first hearing, tell a crackpot musician from a genius, the work of contemporary highbrow composers is unpopular. The public prefers familiar music of guaranteed workmanship...
...busy, as varied and as cosmopolitan as a fair is Ohio State University, fourth largest university in the U. S. Running it is a strenuous job, and this spring gaunt President George Washington Rightmire told the board of trustees he wanted to retire July i, just before he becomes 70. A onetime undergraduate football and track star, onetime country schoolteacher, onetime president of the Columbus (Ohio) city council, Dr. Rightmire during twelve years as head of Ohio State has greatly expanded the sideshows and the attendance at the university...