Word: posted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because of this, the rumor persisted that he planned to unseat Tobin. But he has enormous power with Tobin in office and will probably get more. The notion that he is scheming to succeed Bill Green as president of the A.F.L. also seems unsound-it is a post to which strong men are not elected...
...Strike. Beck also silenced the carping of Seattle's newspapers. When the American Newspaper Guild (then in the A.F.L.) struck Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Beck came to the Guild's aid. A mob of his hard-fisted cohorts surrounded the P-I building, beat up fleeing nonstrikers and closed the plant up tight as a coffin. Hearst set his writers to beating out virulently anti-Beck radio scripts. General Clarance B. Blethen, corpulent publisher of the Seattle Times, indignantly penned an editorial which ended with the ringing line: "How do you like the look of Dave...
...Great Lakes. It drove boats and ships aground. Unburdened of snow, the winds whipped along the border country and on east to the sea. In Buffalo, the gale tumbled a 75-ton coal crane from its tracks, sent it plunging 60 feet through a transformer building. At Painted Post, N.Y., in a final slap, the wind knocked over an iron statue of an Indian which had stood since...
...system." This would probably require government subsidy of a revolving chain of professional repertory groups strung across the country. The United States is the only major country that does not today subsidize the arts, and there is currently a movement afoot to have President Truman create a new cabinet post--Secretary of Fine Arts. Surely a capitalistic democracy has a need for artists...
...post card questionnaire sent to non-House-residing upperclassmen this week also points out that the University is not obliged to keep upperclassmen in their Wigglesworth and Grays Hall room after the end of the current term...