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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shown itself no less subject than its sister nations to seizures of mass hysteria. The Sit-Down last week remained primarily a new and powerful weapon in the hands of Organized Labor. But the 600 cigar-factory girls who sat down for extra pay in Newark, N. J. had no union, did not want one. The seven Negro wet nurses who sat down for 10? per oz. in Chicago (see cut p. 12) had never heard of John L. Lewis, replied to questioners: "Y'all must mean Joe Louis." In Ionia, demanding back pay, members of the Michigan National...
...competition with Union City, N. J., Bloomington, Ill., Hollywood, Calif, and a half-dozen other U. S. towns and cities which hold some sort of Passion Play, Zion, Ill. last week set itself up for the third year as the "American Oberammergau." In Zion's rambling Shiloh Tabernacle on Palm Sunday opened the Zion Passion Play, bigger and longer than ever before. It will be performed every Sunday through June and this year for the first time the show will cost...
...going for a nickel ride on the subway. Most elusive winner was Betty Fitzgerald, switchboard operator for an importing company whose telephone service was disrupted by reporters whom Operator Fitzgerald refused to see in person. Shaggiest winners were a Mr. & Mrs. John Unseld, German-born proprietors of an Elizabeth, N. J. chicken farm, who had signed their ticket "Happy Easter." Said Farmer Unseld: "Chickens are more bother than they're worth. Maybe I'll build an apartment house. Maybe I'll lease a farm. Maybe I'll go back to Germany. Who knows what...
Vladimir Shavitch is a naturalized U. S. citizen who used to conduct the Syracuse (N. Y.) Symphony. Even then he was full of plans for blending "canned" music with living singers. Benjamin Adler, a Manhattan cotton broker, backed him when in 1933 he put on Carmen in New York. In that production Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel sang against an orchestra & chorus which were recorded on discs, not film. Last summer when he was touring Russia, Shavitch persuaded the Fine Arts Commissariat to give his device a further hearing...
President-emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell '77 joined seven business men in a telegram yesterday to Vice-President John N. Garner urging that sit-down strikes be declared illegal by Congress. He demanded that Congress enact and enforce legislation preventing the new labor weapon...