Word: plates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks but Manager Gatti-Casazza was obdurate. Miss Farrar went to his office casually one day, asked if any one would mind if she took that dirty airless room by the stairs. With Gatti's permission, she fixed the cubbyhole up, lined it with brocade and put a gold plate on the door labeled FARRAR. Only Conductor Arturo Toscanini, her great & good friend, refused to take orders from the spirited young prima donna. Gatti favored the "star" system for its box-office power. Farrar gave Toscanini diamond studs but the conductor maintained that stars exist only in Heaven...
...dinner will as usual precede the meeting at the Hotel Commander, 16 Garden Street, Cambridge, at 6 o'clock, for $1.25 a plate. Gustavus J. Easelen will speak on "Why Chemists Leave Home--A News Reel of the Meeting of the Chemical Society." All are invited and reservations may be left with Arthur R. Davis at M. I. T. Cambridge...
...stores a taste of real trouble. Unions began picketing the company's warehouses. Trucks hauling merchandise from warehouse to store were halted. "Flying squadrons" rolled from one red-fronted store to another, growling "close up or we'll come back and close you." A few plate-glass windows got cracked. Meat Cutters', Bakers' and Retail Clerks' & Managers' Unions called strikes against A. & P. demanding closed shop...
...such pictures as King Kong Hollywood has devised automatons capable of more complex movements than Alpha, but never one that responded to the human voice. Anxious to avoid any suspicion of ventriloquism or of a hidden assistant pushing control buttons, Professor May removed the robot's breast plate, disclosing a mechanism like the interior of an ordinary radio. Publicly he explained that Alpha's repertory of answers consisted of 20 or 30 recordings on wax cylinders, as in oldtime phonographs, which were run off in the control cabinets and reproduced from the loud speaker in the robot...
...lightship 125 miles down the River Plate from Buenos Aires an escort of six cruisers picked up the S. S. Conte Grande which was flying the yellow-&-white papal flag and bearing His Eminence Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli. Secretary of State to Pope Pius XI (TIME, Oct. 1). As the liner proceeded up the broad River Plate, a flagship banged out a 21-gun salute and all craft in sight broke out bunting. Through the bright spring morning air sounded the bells of Buenos Aires' 103 churches. Shore batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed...