Word: platform
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Threatening their grail, they all knew without crusading Jimmy Stahlman telling them, was the American Newspaper Guild, freshly allied with C.I.O. In its annual convention in St. Louis last month, the Guild had nailed to its new platform a plank demanding a "Guild shop" (TIME, June 21). That meant that although an employer could still hire whatever news or editorial worker he wished, the Guild would insist that the worker join the Guild within 30 days thereafter. Anyone refusing to join should be summarily dismissed. To Guildsmen such a ukase was more than a shade removed from the closed shop...
...realistic than graceful. Ivan Ivantzoff was more secure as cowardly King Herod. Conductor Alexander Smallens made the score taut and exciting, shared honors with Stage Director Ernst Lert who has produced creditable Salomes at Freiburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Basle, Milan. Manhattan applauded the ingenuity with which Lert changed the Stadium platform into an Oriental terrace and clothed the singers in costumes out of Edmond Dulac...
...Premier Paul van Zeeland may be in the U. S. for purposes of utmost international importance (TIME, June 14), but the ostensible reason for his trip was to receive this week from Princeton University, in whose graduate school he studied 17 years ago, an honorary LL.D. On the platform the premier will meet again his good and potent friend, U. S. Ambassador-at-Large Norman Hezekiah Davis, there for the same purpose. Recalling two notable Harvard LL.D.'s-the Marquis de Lafayette (1784) and Prince Henry of Prussia (1902)-Princeton's van Zeeland provided a newsworthy international fillip...
...tall, bald, stringy . as ever, the "Chance" seemed to many an alumnus no older. To Justice McReynolds he spryly observed: "I should be very glad if I could get on the same platform with you and run for President and Vice President. I have a suspicion that such a combination would be successful." But his voice cracked as he recited to his guests...
...platform at the commencement exercises of Jesuit University of Detroit last week a grizzled oldster nervously adjusted his hood. As the name Adam Denhardt was called, he stepped up to become a Master of Arts. What made Master of Arts Denhardt remarkable was not his age (64) but the fact that so far as could be determined he is the first public school janitor in the U. S. to earn a graduate degree...