Word: happenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When John L. Lewis urged a minimum 40? wage and a five-day, 35-hour week, West Virginia's boyish Senator Rush Dew Holt (he turned 32 this week) asked: "If the Federal Government proceeds from this bill to legislation to regulate all wages and hours, what will happen to industrial democracy?" Grabbing the cigar from his mouth, Boss Lewis exploded, "Is the Senator trying to be humorous...
...apparent trend of public opinion in the steel towns not only embittered union men but indicated that attempts would soon be made to open other plants besides the one at Monroe. This really alarmed the Governors of the States concerned. The battle at Monroe had shown what might happen if citizens and unionists were permitted to fight it out. The prospect stirred two Governors who had previously kept their hands carefully in their pockets, into cautious action. In Indiana, Governor Clifford Townsend called meetings of steel operators and union leaders to see whether he could not settle the strike...
...high-rate money lenders, frequently illegal loan sharks, when they needed a loan. I share the benefits of one myself; had it not been for Filene I should not have had it. This is not his only concrete contribution to liberalism; it is simply the one with which I happen to be familiar...
...formed decorative configurations in the water. Between scenes a 40-ft. curtain of water projected by jets at the surface hid the stage. In the final scene Billy Rose (real name: William Samuel Rosenberg) gave vent to his anti-Fascist feelings with a song called "It Can't Happen Here," a ballet of Men in Black, Men in Brown. Men in Red, a procession of four miniature battleships moving across the water accompanied by martial music and the drone of airplane propellers. At the climax, a girl in a rhinestone robe mounts in a hidden elevator to the tower...
...that the bridge may have to meet is an earthquake. Only six miles away and parallel to the Golden Gate Bridge is the San Andreas Fault, whose 22-ft. shift in 1906 leveled San Francisco. The question which has agitated Californians more than any other is: What will happen to the Bridge if another 'quake comes...