Word: grottos
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...depends upon: 1) his prestige; 2) the C.I.O. constitution, which vests large powers in his executive board; 3) the men whom he chooses to help him run his congress. Last week he and the convention concluded five busy days in the gilded convention hall of Pittsburgh's ornate Grotto Temple by choosing the following: President˜John Llewellyn Lewis...
Thereupon Mr. Lewis launched his congress in Pittsburgh's dilapidated Grotto Hall with a restatement of the C. I. O. peace position and official figures on C. I. O. membership and finances at the close of its third year. "We are not willing," said he, ". . . to make of the C. I. O. another Czechoslovakia, to be dismembered and destroyed by such powers as seek peace at our expense. . . . Once the representatives of the A. F. of L. are ready ... to deal with the C. I. O. on a basis of equality and justice, they will find the representatives...
...whose ladies achieved fame as the mistress of Louis XIV. Near the ancient castle was a cavern leading into the mountain which the natives assured him was impenetrable after a short distance. Casteret undressed, slipped through a crack not much bigger than his body, waded into a grotto through which an underground stream flowed...
...water, forming what speleologists call a "siphon." Unwilling to stop, Casteret inhaled enough breath for two minutes, dived into the tunnel, ready to turn back after one minute if he did not reach the siphon's end. It was short, however, and he soon emerged into another grotto. This was the beginning of explorations in the Grotte de Montespan which eventually led to the discovery of subterranean galleries inhabited by the Magdalenian cave dwellers of 20,000 years ago. Some of the Magdalenian clay images of animals were riddled with holes, apparently made by spears. Others had arrows...
...Four out of five delegates went to the convention straight from the heat of the mills. Nearly half of them were old company union men who had helped lead their organizations into C. I. O. Daily for four days they packed themselves into the smoke-blue auditorium of Islam Grotto in Pittsburgh's slummy North Side, across the Allegheny River from the Golden Triangle. That the S. W. O. C. had picked up a trick or two from Fascist and Communist propagandists was evident from the huge posters of brawny steelworkers, the heroic pictures of Phil Murray and Leader...