Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's end Leader Bridges flew East to address a series of mass meetings in Atlantic ports, try to persuade longshoremen to defy their officers, join the striking seamen. Anticipating the return from South America of apparently the only one who could settle the strike, Oakland and Berkeley, Calif.'s City Councils addressed to President Roosevelt a plea for "prompt and vigorous action...
...with only his faithful valet and a few jewels left. Sent to pawn the jewels, the valet goes to Madame St. Aurlon, sells them to her, begs her to come back. Simultaneously the two unscrupulous businessmen, having trouble with their dictator, ask Madame St. Aurlon to persuade Regis to return to the throne. She flies to him at Cannes. After various vicissitudes, Regis successfully stages a coup d'état. Final scene shows him and his commoner "friend" standing on the palace balcony wildly cheered by the throng below...
...high-priced singers. He had watched the Met struggle through Depression years by shortening its season, humble itself in a desperate tin-cup campaign. Few weeks before Gatti's resignation, the harassed Opera Board signed over its independence to the Juilliard Musical Foundation for $150,000. In return the Board agreed to raise an additional $100,000, to admit Juilliard bigwigs to their council, to increase regular attendance by 10%, to append to the regular season a "popular-priced" one in which U. S. artists might air their talents and perhaps earn winter engagements...
Aside from Lucrezia Bori who resigned last spring (TIME, April 6), 16 singers were not scheduled to return this year. Johnson declared he would stick to last year's plan of fostering young talents by planting them in the spring season, but that they must not be billed for the regular season. Firmly he let it be known that this year would be one of weeding out incompetents...
...outside the hallowed cloisters of Kirkland House, a garbage truck was loading its inimitable wares and in return, unloading the empty tin cans noisily on the side walk. This din continued for a few months to the misery of all in the neighborhood when one appeared, who, by his bearing, was evidently chief among the garbage coterie. His minions, not noticing him, continued their cacophony until a shout silenced them momentarily...