Word: masses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...eleven o'clock tomorrow morning several hundred Harvard students will forego the rest of their classes for the day and hie themselves to the Boston Common, there to join with several thousand other New England collegians for a meeting in the interests of peace. Their mass demonstration will take the form of a strike, and this strike will be notable for the number and variety of issues they oppose. Not satisfied with merely crusading for an abstract, effervescent peace, the students have decided to direct their disapproval against war and the forces which make for war; compulsory military training...
Galloping down Mass. Avenue expecting to find cheering celebrants grouped around the Revolutionary flagpole in the Square, William Dawes, the Cambridge Paul Revere missed his cue yesterday. The motley crowd of Patriots' Day paraders had not arrived, and so, making a detour, had to return a second time to receive his deserved ovation...
...last week's end, C. I. Organizers met trouble that they did not expect. For Sunday they had scheduled a mass meeting at small Picher, Okla. in the midst of a rich lead & zinc region to talk tough miners into deserting the independent Tri-State Metal, Mine & Smelter Workers' Union. Before the meeting could assemble a mob of 4,000 Tri-Staters marched in armed with pick handles, clouted every C. I. O. man they could find in town, wrecked the meeting hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section...
...crew manager and Skull & Bones man at Yale (Class of 1914), won a Distinguished Service Cross for "extraordinary heroism" as a major in the World War, was chosen Bishop Coadjutor of southern Ohio in 1930 after holding an assistant rectorship in Waterbury, Conn., a rectorship in Worcester, Mass. In Cincinnati, his episcopal residence, Bishop Hobson joins in civic movements, collects paintings, holds services in small, old St. Paul's Cathedral, which the growth of the city has left stranded, faced by an ugly parking lot, in a poor section. A leader among "broad" and liberal Episcopal churchmen, busy Bishop...
...scattered financial interests and those of his mother. In 1917, after his mother's death, he married redheaded Mabel Harlow, two years his junior, and long his close friend, in Chicago, and then built a fortress-like, 100-room mansion on Buzzards Bay at South Dartmouth, Mass. He maintained a palatial retreat on Star Island near Miami Beach and a penthouse atop the swank Sherry-Netherlands Hotel in Manhattan. He was at Lake Placid for his health last June. At the time of his death he had a blank will form in his pocket...