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Work was resumed at noon yesterday on the new Radcliffe Study Center. According to a representative of the International Hod Carriers, Building, and Common Laborers Union, the jurisdictional dispute between the Laborers Union and the Plumbers Union will come up before the NLRB Tuesday...
Members of the International Hod Carriers, Building, and Common Laborers Union went on strike Tuesday in a jurisdictional dispute over the laying of pipe on the site...
Died. William O'Dwyer, 74, New York City's bluff, ebullient Democratic mayor from 1946 to 1950; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. The luck of the Irish "Billo" had, at least in the beginning-immigrant from County Mayo at 20, bartender, hod carrier, New York City policeman, night-school lawyer and overnight hero in 1940 when, as Brooklyn D.A., he uncovered the infamous Murder, Inc. and sent seven of its killers to the chair. That made him mayor of New York, and a good job he seemed to be doing too-until he suddenly quit "because...
Died. Andrew Thomas Frain, 60, founder and chief executive of Andy Frain Crowd Engineering Service, the U.S. House of Usher; one of 17 children of a Chicago immigrant hod carrier, who started moving mobs at Black Hawk hockey games in 1923 by using polite, well-paid ($5 a night) college boys, built an elite of white-gloved, blue-and-gold-uniformed six-footers who maintain decorum at some 10,000 events a year, from political conventions (since 1932) and prizefights (Clay-Liston) to funerals (including his); of a heart attack; in Rochester, Minn...
...bought their first work, Ferdinand Hodler's Little Cherry Tree. Thereafter, although the Hahnlosers were not rich, they bought contemporary art steadily until the walls barely showed through the paintings. By 1924, buying most of the time directly from artists, they owned Renoirs, Bonnards, Vuillards, Vallottons, Cezannes, Manguins, Hod-lers, Rodins, Maillols, Redons, Matisses, Rouaults, Utrillos, and just about every other French or Swiss artist that mattered at the time...