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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Firefly" Jeanette MacDonald dances, sings, impersonates a night-spot entertainer, and incidentally rescues her native Spain from the ravages of the rapacious Emperor Napoleon of France by her Mata Hari sleuthing for the local military intelligence. Spain, as all the world knows, was overrun by Napoleon's armies, and subsequently rescued, amid much tumult and shouting and bombs bursting in air, by the iron Duke of Wellington. Many a time have we seen the good duke's armies cavorting on the silver screen, and never to such advantage as in "The Firefly." We feel, however, as one whose ancestors fought...
Accusing the University officials of conspiring to organize a company union in violation of the Massachusetts State "Baby Wagner Act," Robert H. Everitt, New England representative of the A. F. of L.s Building Service Employees' International Union, yesterday told Local 30 that "we'll have to be harder on the University if we want to get anywhere," and threatened to ask the State Labor Relations Board to investigate Harvard's "inside" union...
Saying that the 75 cents paid by members of that local every month gained them life-long security, and would help them to secure a job in any city in the United States, Everitt contrasted this with the 25 cent dues of the Employees' Association. "This just means the University is taking back part of the wages it is paying out," he said...
...professionals feel that they have been suffering from having nobody but themselves to practice with. After a brief glimpse at the local amateur field they chose the Crimson as being liable to offer some ready opposition...
...equally to blame, and its local organizers, no less than their undergraduate sympathizers, should heed the words uttered yesterday by William Green: "The best interests of workers will never be served by tactics adopted from hoodlums and gangsters...