Word: glassed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unions, abetted by its president, John A. Phillips, the Federation instead constituted itself the 18th State Industrial Union Council organized by C. I. O. At its convention last week, attended by more than 1,000 delegates representing some 500,000 organized workers mainly in the mining, steel, aluminum, flat glass, textile, rubber and electrical industries, C. I. O. stalwarts appropriated Typographer Phillips as their president, supplemented their noisy endorsement of Miner Kennedy with a sheaf of resolutions militant enough to give the jitters to Miner Green...
...obviously the industrial East, hardest hit section of the U. S. Because of the slump in automobiles, trade in the Detroit area was off 26% in January from January 1937. New England trade was down 21% as its rambling textile mills operated on a 3-day week. Glass, steel and auto-part mills were listless in northern Ohio. Northern Illinois trade shrank as Chicago unemployment grew. In Manhattan trade volume plumped 19% with cinemansions and department stores feeling the pessimism of Wall Street...
Honoring William Randolph Hearst for returning to the Abbey Church of La Trinité at Fécamp, France, two 16th-century stained-glass windows, identified as stolen goods after he had bought them for his countryseat at San Simeon, Calif., the Paris Intransigeant identified him as a wealthy "manufacturer of garters...
...cymbals and tinklers, were unknown in the Western world until Roman churches began using them in the 5th century, A. D. In the Spear collection are bells from the period when the first European bells were cast instead of being made from metal plates. Others: fragile bells of Venetian glass, Italian Renaissance bells of bronze, children's play bells from 17th-Century Spain, Austrian bells of chased silver, a Chinese porcelain bell of the Sung dynasty. One tiny gold bell in the form of a jaguar's head, found in Costa Rica, can be viewed only...
...Meanwhile, introduced in Congress by Senator Carter Glass with Franklin Roosevelt's approval was a bill to restore to RFC the power to make loans to "any business enterprise" which is unable to find funds elsewhere. RFC's original power to make self-liquidating loans was given to PWA in 1933 and RFC lending power is now limited by numerous restrictions. The Glass amendment is suggested only as an emergency measure to expire in a year's time...