Word: petrillos
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...date, Bully-boy Petrillo has been indignation-proof...
...think it is about time that somebody should start publicly deploring the dictatorship tactics of Mr. James Caesar Petrillo, the bully-boy tsar of the odorous American Federation of Musicians. . . . When the high-school orchestra at Interlochen ... is banned from the air because its members are not yet old enough to join the union, a lot of indignant voices ought to be raised...
Seven weeks ago, James Caesar Petrillo, boss of the American Federation of Musicians, warned the U.S. that after July 31, union musicians would make no more records or transcriptions for radio. Two weeks ago he forced NBC to cancel the National High School Orchestra broadcast series, on the grounds that amateurs had no business competing with his professionals (TIME, July 30). Last week it seemed barely possible that the U.S. Government might render unto Caesar Petrillo a small part of what he has long had coming to him-his comeuppance...
...Attorney General Biddle authorized the filing of an injunction suit to break the Petrillo ban on recordings...
...Chairman James Lawrence Fly-called upon Petrillo (and on NBC President Niles Trammell) to explain the ban on the high-school musicians...