Word: rialto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From the Rialto Theatre, where they are holding a convention, through Jackson Square to the spearheaded front fence of the White House, marched a mixed delegation of the Youth Committee Against War. Not waiting for police or Secret Service men to ask their business, or pausing to explain just what parts of President Roosevelt's program they considered provocative, the young men & women produced from their persons seven large cardboard placards which, hung in a row on the fence (see cut), spelled...
...themselves the elect of the human race;" 2) catty whispers around D. A. R. headquarters intimated that one experience with miners had proved that the spittoon equipment of Constitution Hall was entirely inadequate; 3) the miners, 2,000 strong last week trooped through the dingy entrance of the old Rialto Theatre to attend their big meeting...
...from strictly union business as a third-term boom was the main drama of high labor politics in which John L. Lewis was engaged. It was a drama played on a revolving stage in which the scene shifted back & forth in the twinkling of an eye between the old Rialto Theatre in Washington and the Hotel Everglades in Miami. For simultaneously with the Mine Workers' Convention in Washington, William Green was holding the quarterly meeting of the A. F. of L. Executive Council in Florida...
...length deciding that to face John Lewis, the man-eater of the Mine Workers on the stage of the Rialto would only add indignity to misfortune, Bill Green called in reporters. He gave them copies of a 4,000 word defense he was sending to Washington. Denying the treason charge "unqualifiedly and without equivocation," Miner Green spoke over Miner Lewis' head to the rank& file and their pocketbooks. He asked as a union "stockholder" by what authority the U. M. W. board had loaned $2,000,000 to C. I. O., adding: "It is a serious matter to stockholders...
From the 47th floor of Manhattan's Chanin Building and the top floor of St. Louis' Rialto Building, two migrations were in progress last week with a common destination: Chicago. Famed and farflung Aviation Corp. and its operating subsidiary. American Airways, were on their way to the Kingdom of Cord, and the hardbitten little man who would henceforth rule them undisputed could grin more satisfiedly than ever at the 14 years that have passed since he was selling Moon autos in an agency on lower Michigan Avenue...