Word: jordan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 31 nearly 300 workers in one of the workers in one of the world's largest department stores went on strike: The store was Jordan Marsh. The workers were fighting over whether the A.F.L. or an independent, company-dominated union should represent the truck drivers and warehouse men. For more than two weeks Jordan Marsh tried to break the strike by storing their goods in Columbia Record Company warehouses, distributing them in trucks owned by the Kaplan Company of Lowell and using the polite "services" of many other wholesalers who value the department store's powerful friendship. The issue...
...those who like dramatic orchestral readings of Bach organ works, Columbia has released another Bach-Stokowski transcription, this time a brilliant performance of the D minor Toccata and Fugue. Columbia offers in addition this month an excellent collection of Negro spirituals sung by the Wings Over Jordan Choir who extemporize the different parts in an attempt to retain the spontaneous improvisation which gave birth to these songs...
...same league with 1941's memorable fantasy, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Andrew is still delightful, timely entertainment. It fails to make full use of its Continental shades, and its wobbly plot could stand tightening, but its well-played characters are honestly appealing -especially young Holden, as he tells the jury: "I hope what I am trying to say doesn't sound like flag-waving. I have always felt that flag-waving was something sacred and quiet, and not to be done for any selfish motive...
Flaw. In Dallas, Interior Decorator H. P. Jordan flunked his Naval Reserve physical examination: he was colorblind...
...quarters, something like "Princeton man," but not many have known that it was this bad. The local boys have tried hard enough to please. They have even done their bit of Hollywood, and a small group of them recently served as the main attraction at a meeting of the Jordan Marsh Chapter of the Ladies' Home Journal Sub-Deb Club. Nevertheless the frightful stories of persecutions continue to come and grow. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children should be informed...