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...they informed him, had voted to sit down until he granted their single demand: he must resign and let someone else run the business. President Yahr told them they were ridiculous, ordered them back to work. But the employes were resolute. Customers who called could not get them to interrupt bridge games or badminton contests to fill orders. Telephones rang unanswered. President Yahr finally called in the board of directors. The bargaining committee explained to the directors that, although not unionized, they had decided on concerted action because of President Yahr's policy of hiring young men and women...
...death." Women's Field Army- The biggest organization of U. S. women is the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Accordingly, Dr. Little sought out Mrs- Grace Morrison Poole of Brockton, Mass.; long a prominent clubwoman and president of the Federation in 1932. She was glad to interrupt her work as dean of progressive Stoneleigh College at Rye, N. H., where she trains girls to become businesswomen, to join Dr. Little's crusade. Because she is magnetic and persuasive (Republicans used her to campaign in New Hampshire for Landon), Mrs. Poole has been invaluable in overcoming...
...truth in the President's charge that the Courts prevented flood control. For generations Congress has built flood control works without interference. The TVA decision to which the President referred, he admitted in press conference, was an injunction controlling only TVA's power activities, did not interrupt work on its dams. Said Raymond Moley: "I should welcome the opportunity to speak to the man of whom we heard Thursday evening, to the man who, in the sweat of his brow, piles sand bags on the levee at Cairo. And if I spoke to him I would say that...
...mermaid with a guitar, a swordfish, a gasoline pump, a ventilator. Last week's audience had no dancers to explain what was happening or to whom it was happening. They heard only music to express life aboard ship, a hot-blooded tango where the mermaids are supposed to interrupt ship routine, two catchy tunes to convey tropic abandon. Critics suspected that H. P. contained more South American hotcha than it did authentic Indian music...
...roof in the heat, card players in a midtown hotel, a pair of middle-aged Lesbians quarreling, a sailor picking up a girl. Main trouble with When Night Descends is that the brief snapshots break up the central story, are usually more interesting and original than the one they interrupt...