Word: halle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lofty ballroom of the Cleveland Auditorium, Vice President Ed Hall of C. I. O.'s United Automobile Workers of America made a speech one day last week. After dwelling upon the factional feuds which had nearly wrecked the most promising of C. I. O.'s newer unions, pot-paunched Brother Hall observed: "I say that this organization must be like a cat with nine lives. . . . Unless you can put men in office and quit . . . sniveling, snitching and jibing at those individuals, you will never have unity, you will never have a constructive, democratic, militant organization...
...Hall and some 500 delegates to a special convention were in Cleveland last week to save their union's ninth and last life. Provisional President Roland Jay Thomas, Vice Presidents Hall, Richard Frankensteen and Wyndham Mortimer, Secretary-Treasurer George Addes, many another feudist professed the utmost anxiety to salvage what seceding President Homer Martin had left of their union when he split away last month (TIME, Feb. 6). But not one volunteered to sacrifice his job to that end. One & all were anxious to better themselves, preferably at the expense of fellow officers...
Late one afternoon last week Adolf Hitler stepped up on a platform in City Hall Square at Wilhelmshaven. German naval base on the North Sea. A few inches in front of him was a bullet-proof glass shield†. Packed in the square beyond was an audience of 80,000 Heil-Hitlering Germans who had just attended the launching of the 35,000-ton battleship Von Tirpitz. Beyond them was a vast radio audience of millions in Germany, Britain, the U. S. waiting anxiously to hear a speech which had been widely heralded as the Führer...
Last week Bombster Bush did it again. This time he rented Albert Hall (capacity 12,000), and launched a three-day Festival of Music for the People. Main feature: a massive pageant depicting the story of "the people in their struggle forward out of subjection." In it danced, acted, sang and marched 500 pageanteers from London's Labor choirs, 100 folk dancers from the village of Abbott's Bromley, dancers from London's Communist Unity Theatre, Negro Baritone Paul Robeson, and 100 English veterans of the Spanish Loyalist army. Its music was composed by a bombing squad...
Harvard Freshman Lothrop Withington Jr., son of a onetime (1910) Harvard football captain, started the fad sweeping U. S. campuses, as raccoon coats did some 10 years ago, as the Veterans of Future Wars did in 1936. In Withington's room in Holworthy Hall one night last month conversation turned on his aquarium. Freshman Withington boasted that he had once eaten a goldfish. A classmate remarked it would be worth $10 to see the feat repeated. Thereupon young Withington seized one of his pets by the tail, popped it into his mouth, chewed well, won his reward...