Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 600 labormen filed into Denver's cavernous municipal auditorium one morning last week and settled back for the 1937 convention of the American Federation of Labor. It was A. F. of L.'s 57th, the fourth held in Denver. There in 1894 the late Samuel Gompers received his first and only defeat for the A. F. of L. presidency. There in the same building 1 6 years ago William Green, then the inconspicuous pink-cheeked secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, uprose to nominate John L. Lewis for the A. F. of L. presidency...
...medium for him ("I've never been able to compact an idea into three acts"). Last July he referred to Hollywood fame as "a load of clams" at which "a dreaming of his dithyrambs, our gallant Thespis thumbs his nose," few days later signed to write for Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each. In the tortured and tortuous mental life of his hero Sterns in To Quito and Back, friends of Playwright Hecht thought they...
Besides chairman Jones, members of the committee in charge of the American History program include Chester N. Greenough '98, professor of English, Francis O. Matthiessen, associate professor of History and Literature, Frederick Merk, professor of History, Samuel E. Morison '07, professor of History, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, professor of English, Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History, and Dumas Malone, director of the University Press
Joseph G. Allen, Huntington, West Virginia; Gordon E. Jones, Olympia, Washington; Charles W. Hayden, Kansas City, Missouri; Ferdinand F. McAllister, Brooklyn, New York; John E. Adams, Berkeley, California; Samuel E. Elmore Jr., Spindale, North Carolina; Henry B. Ruley, Louisville, Kentucky; Robert P. Tucker, Charleston, South Carolina; Lucio E. Gatto, Cambridge,; Charles H. Horndon, Dublin, Texas...
They are James P. Kranz Jr., of Nashville, Tennessee, chairman; Charles B. Arendall Jr., Mobile, Alabama; Benjamin C. Chester, Central Falls, Rhode Island; John Corcoran, Pittsburgh; Robert C. Creel, Cambridge; John H. Ferguson, Oklahoma City; Paul Fitting, Nutley, New Jersey; Samuel Gordon, Brooklyn, New York; William P. Gray, Glendale, California; Willard P. Henkelman, Seranton, Pennsylvania; Samuel L. Jashnoff, Far Rockaway, Long Island; Hugh R. Jones, New Hartford, New York; Thomas W. Keesee Jr. Helena, Arkansas; William W. Kirkpatrick, Chappaqua, New York, William H. Pock Jr., Glen Ridge, New Jersey, John O. Rhome, West Allenhurst, New Jersey; and Harold A. Unterberg...