Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...continued his friend R. J. Thomas as supervisor of relations with Chrysler Corp. Ed Hall was assigned to General Motors and to unorganized Ford. To Walter Wells fell parts, tool & die plants. Mr. Martin's two chief rivals-his quarrel with whom almost disrupted the motor workers' union (TIME, Oct. 3)-got special satrapies: Wyndham Mortimer was sent from Detroit to "work with and assist" WPA auxiliaries and aircraft factory locals in the East; and barrel-chested young Richard Frankensteen was given an identical task in California...
Meeting the Grand Duke in Paris were many of his White Russian "subjects"-generals now turned taxi drivers, counts reduced to waiting on tables, colonels who have become doormen. In a rented hall "His Majesty Vladimir II, Tsar of All the Russias," held "court," his subjects kneeling in obeisance as he proceeded slowly down an aisle to the tune of God Save the Tsar, the old Russia imperial anthem. Reported preparing to meet the acknowledged head of the Russian Imperial House in Germany, however, was a powerful, potential ally, a sworn enemy of the Communist Russia that must be overturned...
...Trapp, Mama von Trapp and the seven young singing von Trapps barnstormed the Middle West and South, surprised many a gas-station attendant with their dirndl dresses and Lederhosen. Last week they wound up in Manhattan, singing a program of Renaissance music and Austrian folk songs at Town Hall. Manhattan critics found their singing the last word in freshness and refinement...
Called the most graceful person in the world,. the pretty figure, skater became a rage among movie and sport fans almost overnight. Her mother and four body guards had to keep a mob of admirers from tearing her apart, in the hall outside her dressing room...
...Richard Gregory, noted British author and astronomer, and editor of the scientific journal "Nature," is lecturing tonight at New Lecture Hall on the subject "Religion in Science...