Word: halled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hourly workers, the clerks had to be hired through a C. I. O. union; as monthly salaried men, they may be employed independently of the ship clerks' hiring hall. C. I. O.'s West Coast Director Harry Bridges, scenting a sly device to undermine his forces and promote an "independent" association of American-Hawaiian employes, forbade his longshoremen to load the company's ships. San Francisco waterfront employers in retaliation closed the port, contending that issues beyond the pay status of ten clerks were involved. While both sides fussed over the terms by which this tempest...
...high-sided touring car with the top down. Sophie sat at his side and General Potiorek, the Governor of the Province, occupied a jump seat in front of them. The procession of four cars formed-one ahead and two behind them-and they drove on toward the Town Hall...
Sarajevo nestles between the hills in the valley of the Miljachka River. Its main thoroughfare, the Appel Quay, follows the river bank. The domes and minarets of Sarajevo's 100 mosques gleamed white in the rain-washed air as the procession started up the quay toward the Town Hall...
...Valentiner went too far with intimate arrangement only once, crowding five El Grecos into a cubicle. Chief triumphs of the show were in his own favorite field of Flemish and Dutch painting. In the eyes of connoisseurs, the Ince Hall Madonna (see cut) by Jan van Eyck was worth an exhibition all by itself. This tiny (8¾ inches by 6 inches) painting on wood came all the way from the National Gallery in Melbourne, Australia, where it is valued at $250,000. Until 1922 it lurked, under a heavy scum of varnish, in the murk of Ince Hall, near...
...Yankees, he served as braintruster for the Chicago Cubs, quit the Cubs to join the Dodgers, quit the Dodgers to join the Giants-all within 14 months. Last week, on the same day that old Pete Alexander, along with ten other living Immortals, was installed in Baseball's Hall of Fame at Cooperstown, Tony Lazzeri quit major-league ballplaying, signed up as manager of the minor-league Toronto Maple Leafs...