Word: masterful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Robert Herrick, 70, veteran novelist of departed social issues (The Memoirs of an American Citizen, Together, The Master of the Inn), onetime (1905-23) professor of English at the University of Chicago, Government secretary of the Virgin Islands since 1935; of a heart attack; in Charlotte Amalie...
...Christmas Eve a happy knot of womenfolk on a quay in Halifax had the U. S. Liner American Farmer to thank that their men were home to tell the tale of what happened when heavy weather struck the venturesome Nova Scotian three-master Fieldwood, bound from Hawkesbury, N. S. for Barbados. Two days out the pumps broke down. Water poured in through the racked hull to disable auxiliary engine and radio. Soon the captain, his crew of six and their mascot bulldog, Yummie, were marooned on the deck of the water-logged ship...
...Master showman of Relief is David Lasser, president of the Workers Alliance of America. Last week in Washington, Showman Lasser produced a tragedy in 50 acts, designed to show the Administration and Congress that instead of cutting WPA rolls the U. S. should furnish more jobs at better...
...week a leader in this evolution toward unionism for employers succeeded in doing for San Francisco business what Labor has never been able to do for itself. In the newly incorporated San Francisco Employers Council, Shipowner Roger Dearborn Lapham offered his fellows one big union of their own, a master association of employers associations. He thus put San Francisco a long jump ahead of any other U. S. city and injected a new factor into Pacific Coast labor relations...
With services conducted by Dean Sperry and music furnished under the direction of Archibald T. Davison '05, professor of Choral Music and Organist and Choir Master, the University Choir and Radcliffe Choral Society will give the annual Harvard, Christmas Carol Services tonight and tomorrow in the Memorial Church...