Word: philadelphia
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Soon as the potential effects of the reversal became apparent, NLRB Counsel Charles Fahy asked the Circuit Courts of Appeals at Covington, Ky., Philadelphia and Chicago to permit withdrawal and correction of board records filed respectively against Ford Motor Co., Republic Steel Corp., Inland Steel Co. The Covington court first granted, this week denied NLRB the desperately needed permission; the Philadelphia court postponed final decision. Circuit judges at Chicago were to hear the Board's Inland petition this week. Certain it was that unless the Supreme Court of the U. S. reverses the Sixth Circuit Court at Covington, Ford...
Meanwhile, Philadelphia's Caricaturist Louis Hirshman happened to issue a biting caricature of Miss Littlefield. Outraged Ballerina Littlefield marched fuming to Philadelphia's Artists' Union to see the caricature, tore it in half (see cut) and (according to press reports) slapped Caricaturist Hirshman. Later Miss Littlefield denied the slap, called it just a push. "My impulse," she continued, "is never to hit. I incline to the tearing of limb from limb...
...became apparent that the trend away from modernism was also affecting U. S. concert programs. Of the 41 compositions by contemporary composers performed last season by the Philharmonic-Symphony, only six or seven showed modernistic tendencies. Compared with programs of ten years ago the past season in Manhattan, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago showed an appreciable decline in the number of modernist composers represented. Since 1935 activities of Manhattan's League of Composers, modernism's principal U. S. stronghold, have fallen off sharply...
Died. Robert Tait McKenzie, 70, long-time (1904-30) director of physical education at the University of Pennsylvania and able, prolific sculptor of athletes, soldiers, Boy Scouts; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. His most noted work was his Scottish-American War Memorial which now stands just off Edinburgh's Princes Street...