Word: localisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Approximately 400 are expected to attend the annual meeting, where the main business will be settling the A. S. U's position on methods of keeping this country out of war. This issue involves a stand on the Russian invasion of Finland, which the local chapter condemned in a resolution last week...
...unauthorized strike must end completely. Once we accomplish that, the enemies of our union will no longer be able to make the charge that the U. A. W.C. I. O. is irresponsible. . . . Hasty strike votes, taken before the grievance machinery has been exhausted, may involve the local union in a course that may force it to strike, whether a strike is advisable or not. . . . There is no better way to wreck a local union than to permit small, irresponsible groups to shut down a plant employing thousands of workers. Where small groups threaten unauthorized action [i.e., sit-downs or slowdowns...
...feet in spun-glass slippers, Marva Trotter Louis, wife of Heavyweight Boxing Champion Joe Louis, officiated at the coronation of St. Louis' Negro society king and queen. Introduced as "leader of Chicago society . . . America's premier lady of fashion," Mrs. Louis was accompanied by a local physician, who informed all, "I am a personal friend of Joe Louis." Interviewed by newshawks, Mrs. Louis said of her husband: "He never gets rowdy in the home. I sure wish I had his poise and calm...
...Civil Aeronautics Authority's flying course at Harvard was a fine idea, and everybody realized, it, including the one hundred and forty students who sought the original fifty vacancies this fall. But thus, far there has been so much red tape and so many delays while the local authorities champ at the bit waiting for marching orders from Washington, that the course has been stumbling along very jerkily indeed. It would be too bad if the excessive centralization of the C. A. A. snarled up the course and made it too disorganized to be worthwhile...
Last year in this column we objected to the fact that Harvard's musical groups hardly ever appear in Cambridge. The Perian Sodality, with four local concerts this year, is setting an example which, if followed by other organizations, would remedy the situation. The program which the orchestra will play tomorrow evening is exemplary also in the selection of the music, for it gives us an opportunity to hear works from a much talked of, but little known lecture the orchestral music of Bach and Handle...