Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mirrors. In The Netherland Plaza Hotel's gaudy, marbled Hall of Mirrors, A. F. of L. President William Green convened some 500 delegates for preliminaries to the second, working week of their convention. By reflection from the glassy walls, the delegates saw themselves for what they were: mostly middleaged, fattening, "safe" gentlemen with good cigars. Any businessman would have been at home with them. For they were businessmen who had made, and proposed to preserve, careers in unionism. From them and from their typical President Green came no radical proposals, no departures from the prime strategy...
...drives, Community Chest drives. For the U. S.'s No. 1 charitarian rich man, John D. Rockefeller Jr., it was a busy week, with not only charity but a ceremony attendant on the presentation by the French Government of the Diplome de Grand Prix to Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes. Meanwhile, at one of his father's endowments, the University of Chicago, President Robert Maynard Hutchins announced that Chicago, would gladly take over Oxford's Rhodes scholars during...
...last month amid arc lights that made the Indian Legislative Assembly Hall at Simla, the summer capital, look like a film studio, six-foot Lord Linlithgow, Viceroy of India, read to a hushed gathering a long telegram from His Majesty the King. The telegram explained why Great Britain had thought it wise to enter a war and the monarch was confident of India's support. Then His Excellency the Viceroy put on his pince-nez, looked accusingly at his audience and proceeded to assure His Majesty, on behalf of India, that India saw eye to eye with everything Britain...
...some 5,000,000 U. S. radio listeners, including members of some 1,400 groups which gather weekly to hear the debates, fight them out locally later. Most eager of all are the thousands who vie weekly by mail for the 1,600 seats in Manhattan's Town Hall and a chance to heckle the speakers in person. Anxious, too, for a chance at the program are at least two hefty radio sponsors (Chrysler, Metropolitan Life), but NBC's Town Meeting of the Air is not for sale...
Luis Sort, leading modern architect and town planner of Spain, and Vice President of the Congres Internationaux de I'Architecture Moderne, will give a public lecture on "Can Our Cities Survive?", Tuesday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock, in the lecture room on the first floor of Hunt Hall...