Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...offer a minor correction...
...union-shop agreement from the Radio Corporation of America's RCA Victor Division. In Cleveland, the big, strong International Typographical Union's convention adopted a policy of not signing any future contracts, thus skirting the Act's closed-shop ban (see PRESS). Across the country many minor strikes and disputes were settled close to the deadline; in some cases, clocks were stopped at 11:59 P-m., while negotiations went on. In New York City a longshoremen's contract got signed in time, but three locals refused to abide by it and started a wildcat strike...
That no imaginative appeal for new support is made constitutes a weakness all the greater because the foremost requirement for an effective student organization is a broad base of participation. Interest at Harvard in NSO has been more spasmodic than widespread. A minor tempest arose over the question of whether or not NSO should be affiliated with the International Union of Students, formed last summer in Prague. On this issue the "Progressive's" contributor, J. C. Farrar of Yale, takes a qualified affirmative position, proposing "affiliation at once" but only on the grant of "certain contingencies." Though reasserting the benefits...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Strauss's love scene from Feuers-not, Handel-Elgar's Overture in D Minor, the Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet in D Major. Conductor: Frank Black...
Some of this Fleming has now translated into The Lightwood Tree. George Cliatt, fortyish, teaches history at Fredericksville Academy, while his brother is fighting in the Pacific. At a football game where a minor ruckus develops, a friend of Cliatt's adds to the confusion by yelling "To hell with the Home Folks Party." The friend is arrested on orders of the boss...