Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harassed. But fundamentally there was little reason for him to admit a general defeat. "Little Steel" was only one sector of the steel front; he still had the majority of the industry in his pocket. Moreover, steel is only one of C.I.O.'s many fronts. In other mass-production industries like oil, glass, rubber, motor, mining, there have been no serious setbacks. C.I.O.'s Transport Workers Union has been sweeping the field among Manhattan's taxi-drivers and subway and bus employes. Its office workers are invading Wall Street. Here & there C.I.O. has lost minor collective bargaining...
...north bank of the Allegheny just above Pittsburgh's mills. Then one day in April an agile wisp of a man with a soft beard came to live in the parish house with Father Albert Zagar. Scaffolding went up in the church and every day at early mass Croatian women could see how far along the church's new artist had come with his murals. By last week report of his completed work had gone far beyond Millvale and Pittsburgh, had put the parish of St. Nicholas in a class by itself as harboring...
...cold blues and black, with green lightning. His model for the figure of Christ was a strapping Negro mill worker. It was well toward the end of May before the final murals complementing these on the back walls took shape and made the women on their way out after mass stop and weep and burn candles...
...Bishop Misbehaves was the play given last month by the high-school dramatic club at Saugus, Mass, (pop.: 15,000). What the townspeople of Saugus have been talking about ever since, however, is the behavior of the club's 25-year-old coach, honey-haired English Teacher Isabelle Hallin. An experienced summer trouper who spent three seasons with the Garrick Players at Kennebunkport, Me., Saugus-bred Miss Hallin wears attractive, form-fitting dresses, makes adroit use of cosmetics. Moreover, six Bishop rehearsals had been held in the cellar of her home. Were cigarets served? Cocktails? What happened...
...idea of educating people to live instead of to earn a living. There will be emphasis on the classics - not on the languages, but on great books. We want to get away from present liberal arts courses, which are dreary because they are just a mass of history and social science and badly taught language and literature...