Word: hendley
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...Paganini's on the violin, involves a clawlike motion with thumb and two fingers that serves to transform the banjo player from a plunk-plunking accompanist into a virtuoso soloist. Nobody has heard anything to equal it, says one folk expert, since the glorious days of Fisher Hendley and his Aristocratic Pigs, famed hillbillies of the early...
...Teachers to revoke Local 5-3 charter. When A. F. of T. rebuffed Mr. Green, Local $'s officers and 700 of its 2,200 members marched out of the Union formed a rival Teachers Guild. Local 5 thereupon cagily elected a non-Stalinist, tense, well-meaning Charles J. Hendley, as its president, in two years increased its' membership sixfold...
...York Legislature, probing subversive activities" (TIME, Dec. 16). That gave Local 5 something real to worry about, for the investigating committee demanded the union's membership list. No U. S. labor union had ever before been compelled to make public the names of its members. President Hendley, objecting that disclosure would endanger union members' jobs, refused to hand over the list. Many another union, many a distinguished educator (among them: Princeton's Dean Christian Gauss) backed him in his refusal. But last week New York's highest court, the Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that...
This week President Hendley and the Union decided to comply with the court's order. Said the Union:.". . . A dangerous precedent to the whole labor movement...