Word: rolland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, 189 years after his death, George Frederick Handel was more widely talked-about than ever. Sir Newman Flower's revised edition of his scholarly George Frideric Handel, His Personality and His Times had just been published in the U.S. (Scribner; $6); the late Romain Rolland's Essays on Music (Allen, Towne & Heath; $5) had a fat chapter on him. Handelian Robert Manson Myers had written a book-Handel's Messiah, a Touchstone of Taste (Macmillan; $5), out next week-on his greatest oratorio. Handel was not always so well treated...
Ironically, the argument touched a question of tough professional pride. How old did you have to be to get into the Algoa Reformatory near Jefferson City, a place for even tougher guys? As the words grew angrier, one of the boys grabbed Rolland Barton, 15, from behind, crooked one arm around his neck and held on for ten minutes. When the body grew limp, he and the third boy tossed it on the bunk, tore strips from a blanket and cinched them around their victim's neck to finish the job. In a final fury they showered blows...
...general staff: Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, 35, ex-metal worker and leader of the union's far-left wing; Vice President Richard Truman Frankensteen, 38, now running for mayor of Detroit; Walter Reuther, 38, boss of the union's left-of-center faction; and President Rolland Jay Thomas, 45, balance wheel between the warring Reuther-Addes factions...
...rugged, hard-driving steel worker who learned to speak fluent English while working for Henry Ford in Detroit. Britain's 15 delegates were headed by veteran T.U.C. Secretary Sir Walter Citrine,* who spoke for British labor. The U.S. delegation, led by P.A.C. Chairman Sidney Hillman and U.A.W. President Rolland Jay Thomas, spoke only for the C.I.O. The A.F. of L. had haughtily refused to sit down with the Communist Russians...
...Trabajadores de America Latina. The capable Mexican labor leader, having in recent years extended his organization into other Latin American countries, was able as the representative of some 4,000,000 workers to make his strength felt. An open split was averted by the arrival of C.I.O.'s Rolland Thomas, who, having had "a wash and a Scotch" at his hotel, made a fervent appeal for compromise. The compromise: ex-enemy delegates, if they present satisfactory union references, could be seated; otherwise they could only observe. ¶Britain's Citrine demanded that congress decisions be merely advisory...