Word: hives
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joseph Quill, president of C. I. O.'s Transport Workers, (trolleys, taxis, busses, subways). Mike Quill is politically potent, a generally stanch backer of Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia, and one of five A. L. P. members of New York's City Council. With many Communists in his hive, he has followed the party beeline, was suspected of following it this week in San Francisco, where he was a divisive force in the C. I. O.'s national convention (see p. 28). Under a five-day ultimatum from A. L. P.-to renounce either Communism...
...evening last week Apiarist Van de Poele went to Boston's Radio Station WEEI to talk about bees, took along a hive of 30,000 bees for sound effect. Nervous after his microphone ordeal, he struck the hive against a studio door, dropped it. Out with a horrid hum swarmed all 30,000 bees. While spectators and staff members fled, the beeman valiantly scooped his charges back into the studio with bare bands, slammed the door...
Then for two hours, moving cautiously lest he release the bee-maddening smell of a squashed bee, he herded most of the insects back into their hive. Later he returned with a smoke gun and vacuum sweeper to clean up. About 5,000 bees died in the process. From his body Apiarist Van de Poele, who suffered not so much as a swelling, calmly removed some 300 stingers...
...find it hard to imagine how such a strictly non-political novel could be considered out of line, even in such a rectilinear country as Duceland. But, though the book was not suppressed, the Italian press gave it not a single mention. Reason: The ruler of Rome's hive does not approve of such Roman drones as Moravia writes about, prefers to ignore their existence...
...Kingdom & Empire are confident that the right people have now been golden-framed. Last week Buckingham Palace was a busy hive of active preparation for the gorgeous, solemn Coronation scheduled for May 12. The King had regular fittings of his various Crowns and Coronation garments, as did the Queen. Tightly boarded up already is Westminster Abbey and inside carpenters thwacked furiously, erecting that ominous-sounding platform, "The Scaffold," on which Their Majesties are joyously to be crowned...