Word: m
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been reported that France and Britain would seize the Island of Minorca, still held by the Loyalists, and might even march into Spanish Morocco if the Italians did not evacuate Spain at the war's end. Radical Socialists believed M. Daladier to have confirmed these reports when, underlining his words, he said to them: "It is characteristic that British and French warships are now cruising in the Mediterranean along the coast of Spanish Morocco as well as near the Balearic Islands...
...Taranto, Italy, 28-year-old Battista Rocca walked out to take the air on the town's main street. Promenader Rocca had a furled umbrella crooked over his arm, and not a stitch besides. To the horrified policemen who arrested him, he explained with dignity: "I'm Mr. Chamberlain...
...time music than would otherwise come their way. The kicks against Columbia's system have come not from its customers but from its commodity: the artists themselves. Biggest bugaboo Columbia has today is Lawrence Tibbett's dress-collar union, American Guild of Musical Artists. A. G. M. A. has never liked Columbia's practices of giving its artists oral contracts, exploiting a few big names, never letting its artists know what prices they are fetching. Manager Judson keeps his own books, and keeps them to himself...
...like a Daily Worker caricature of a capitalist, he sits behind an enormous French walnut desk in Manhattan's Steinway Building, continuously smoking big Havana cigars. Says he: "Managers are employes of artists. An artist is perfectly free to hire any manager he wants." But when A. G. M. A. representatives last month wanted to look at Employe Judson's books (on the theory that the employer has a right to know how the business is going), Employe Judson refused pointblank...
Employe Judson regards Lawrence Tibbett's A. G. M. A. as just so many howling Reds. "The American people won't stand for being told that a great artist cannot appear before them because he hasn't a union card." Asked whether a young, unknown artist with an independent manager has any chance against the competition of the big chains, Manager Judson replies: "If he's a good artist and has a good manager, God himself couldn't stop...