Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...June 1936 when John L. Lewis set up the Steel Workers' Organizing Committee, the moribund Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel & Tin Workers had some 10,000 members and no important contracts. Working from a big modern office covering the entire 36th floor of Pittsburgh's Grant Building-a few floors above Ernest Tener Weir's anti-union National Steel Corp.-the S. W. O. C. has since then put on the most efficient organizing campaign in the history of U. S. labor. In 18 months it 1) opened company towns to union organizers, 2) jacked the Amalgamated...
...Worthington Scranton of Scranton, whose patrician features and baronial name do not prevent her from wearing all the fantastic headgear which fashion prescribes, is in many ways symbolic of the modern Republican Party. As National Committeewoman from Pennsylvania, Mrs. Scranton last year not only listened religiously to Alf Landon on the radio, but welcomed him back to the State of his birth. Last week, along with 19 other members of the National Committee's executive committee, a very serious Mrs. Worthington Scranton was to be seen daily entering & leaving a conference room on the first floor of St. Louis...
...brick-walled room that was once a foundry, seated on 65 folding chairs, the audience applauded a modern version of an old story of incest and parricide. The same story, dramatized by Sophocles and called Oedipus Rex, moved an audience in Athens over 2,300 years ago. Sophocles' tale of the great and virtuous king, who learns within one tense hour that he is unwittingly guilty of two hideous crimes, has never been surpassed for suspense and horror, is considered one of the world's neatest jobs of play construction. In The Infernal Machine Playwright Cocteau has kept...
...pied piper of Hamelin was a dismal flop compared to the modern underworld radio show. One day four years ago several young matrons at the Women's Club in suburban Maplewood, N. J. fell to talking about this problem, a great worry to many a U. S. mother who has observed the intense preoccupation of U. S. moppets with the cheap and sensational entertainment provided for them by films, newspaper strips and particularly the radio. Said brown-haired, brown-eyed Mrs. Dorothy L. McFadden, mother of James & Jean and wife of James L. McFadden, export consultant and amateur sketcher...
More practically. Dr. Bundesen summoned pediatricians, pathologists and bacteriologists by the dozen (and was photographed with them hovering around his desk). As with similar epidemics in hospital nurseries of Manhattan, Seattle, Toronto, they could find no definite cause for the disease. Their best advice was prevention. Modern technique requires that every baby should have individual linens, separate glass-enclosed cubicles in which to lie. Visitors should be kept away from the infants for the first three weeks, the time when they are most vulnerable to virulent diarrhea. Above all, babies should nurse only from the breast when at all possible...