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...which was hopefully offered as platform material by leaders of blocs and factions, economists, radicals, cranks. Heard by the committee were A. F. of L.'s William Green, American Farm Bureau Federation's Edward A. O'Neal, the National Grange's Louis J. Taber, Newspaper Guild's Heywood Broun, Hobo Fellowship's Ralph E. Dalton, many another. When the perfunctory examination of unordered lumber was over, the drafting committee settled down in room No. 717 at the Bellevue-Stratford to an all-night job. Their job was to make their work last all night...
...regard to the AP's non-profit status, the Guild's smart Attorney Morris Ernst was equally resourceful. Appearing as a "friend of the court," Attorney Ernst declared: "It is quite clear that respondent [the AP] is not an eleemosynary institution, but is a business association through which member newspapers make greater profits through decreased costs. Assessments vary in the same manner as dividends." For Mr. Davis' manufacturing claim, Mr. Ernst Lad just as ingenious a rebuttal: "News, in its intangible form, is carried over the air by wires; in printed form, it is carried over...
...mandolin; Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby and Edsel Ford's son Henry II, the guitar; William Randolph Hearst used to strum a banjo. Not any of these but 1,500 other adepts of fretted instruments gathered last week in Minneapolis for the 35th annual convention of the American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists & Guitarists. Convention manager and official host was Chester William Gould, 36, a big, loud-voiced banjoist, organizer of the 50-piece Gould Mandolin Orchestra, which this week was to perform a Mexican Fantasia in costume, and of the champion Go-piece Gould Banjo Band, which was to render...
...showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program with that maestro known to all Hawaiian guitarists, Sophocles Papas. Finally there was "the world's greatest mandolinist," Giuseppe Pettine of Providence, R. I., of whom the official Guild Reporter said in advance of his platform appearance...
...current Theatre Guild production and Pulitzer prize play-Idiot's Delight by Robert Sherwood-is a satire on (1 war, fascism and nationalism, 2 the New Deal, 3 Hollywood, 4 big business in America, 5 the Townsend Plan...