Word: latters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Back to Babel. By far the most important topic of the convention was the withdrawal of the A. F. of L.'s Building Trades Department from the National Board of Jurisdictional Awards. The latter, now collapsed, was a board composed of civil engineers, architects, contractors and other employers, and of workers in the building trades, which was formed to settle disputes as to what workmen should do what sorts of work and how. Labor accused the other members of the Board of failing to carry out the Board's decisions. Secretary of Labor Davis deplored Labor...
...Tomlinson, the British novelist who will lecture at the Union at 8 o'clock tonight, will appear under the joint auspices of the English Department and Union, it was announced yesterday by the Graduate Secretaries of the latter...
...sculptures readily divide into two groups, those where the inspiration is eastern, and portraits. Of the latter one only is in marble and its whiteness challenges a comparison with the others. This piece, a portrait of Galli-Curci, is well done in a realistic manner, where the surface has been minutely worked. How much more interesting and daring is the other painted and laquered wood representation of the prima donna. Here a brilliant red comb above dark hair, and crimson lips suggest the sparkle of the stage. The marble version gives us her features as an individual, while the colored...
...courtroom because this was the first time a superintendent of schools had ever been tried in Chicago. The charges were insubordination (refusing to replace teachers who worked in the executive offices and sometimes substituted in the classroom, with civil service clerks) and unpatriotism. Evidence adduced to prove the latter charge: "He refused to recommend to the School Board that the school children be permitted to donate small amounts of money for the purpose of reconditioning-the famous American battleship Old Ironsides. . . . He recommended history text books which contained pro-British propaganda and which omitted the name and exploits of many...
Prospectively redoubtable Army was none too redoubtable against Boston University and Detroit on its first two Saturdays. Thirteen points against the former and a mere 6 against the latter was all the team (most of it) that played the great Navy team to a memorable tie last season could produce. Defense was strong; the opposition failed to score...