Word: laws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alley (Yon Are the Reason for My Love Song), had decided on a plunge into serious composition. The result, a symphonic poem, The Last Knight, based on some mystical verses by the late G. K. Chesterton, got solicitous treatment from Conductor Monteux, Composer Davis' brother-in-law. Like the now classic Negro Rhapsody of John Powell which followed it, Mrs, Davis' opus was agreeably straightforward. Her knight errant did a good deal of pale loitering and sounded a great deal like the hero of Richard Strauss's Heldenleben but as Opus I it rated at least...
...themselves for three years. Flynn saw to it that most of his boys signed up for three years. He did it with biscuits, teaching the boys to expect one biscuit when he held up one finger, two for two, three for three. When the examining magistrate, required by island law to pass on all indentures, popped the important question, Flynn would gravely hold up three interrogating fingers, was invariably rewarded with almost hysterical assent. When his conscience hurts nowadays, Flynn recalls that many of the boys came out of the bush emaciated, ulcered, unhappy, but after a few months...
...these sentiments was equaled next day when General Motors' President William S. Knudsen rose at the general session to relate G. M.'s troubles with labor and its effect upon business. Excerpt: "The Industrial Union in its present form has to depend on force in defiance of law. There are not many places in the U. S. at the moment where laws can be enforced to control the movement. The technique of the sit-down strikers is identical with that of the syndicalists of Europe. France has finally had to take a stand against them because...
...Colans' rabbi, Talmudist A. E. Abramovitz, gave no better help: "The Mosaic law does not deal with such problems. At the time the Bible was written surgery was not advanced to the extent that it is today, and such problems did not occur. ... It is my opinion that we should let nature take its course. Where men cannot correct, let God make His own decision...
...Hartford (Conn.) Times a former newspaperman, 34, advertised: "Job Wanted-I can tutor your children, wash your automobile or your dishes, take your dog out for a stroll, do your office work, ghost write for you, prepare your speeches and argue with your mother-in-law. . . . There is nothing wrong with me physically, mentally or morally. Will you take a chance on me?" The advertiser: an inmate in the Connecticut State Prison...