Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casualties to the hospital (TIME, Jan. 18). Not anxious but indignant was Strike Leader Homer Martin who had flown to Washington. Said he: "The blood-spilling in Flint by hired Hessians of General Motors is a demonstration of what Mr. Alfred Sloan means by collective bargaining." Newshawks on the scene, however, confirmed General Motors' contention that none of its company guards nor any hired strikebreakers had any part in the violence, that the riot was entirely between strikers and the Flint police...
...outstanding exceptions as John Dos Passos' Three Soldiers and Arnold Zweig's Case of Sergeant Grischa was added this week Author van der Meersch's Invasion-the first novel to show what the War was like for civilians caught behind the German lines. Invasion's scene is the district around Lille, in northern France, a narrow strip between the Belgian border and the trenches of the Western Front. In that crowded industrial area, in 1914, were three towns, a dozen villages, hundreds of thousands of people. Invasion's principal characters number more than 50, represent...
...McPherson preach thrice daily, attended a Pentecostal Fire Rally lasting from 6 a. m. until midnight and involving shouting, ''speaking in tongues," sermons on such subjects as Fires of Hell, Sodom Fire, Fire of Pentecost, Avenging Fire, Fiery Furnace, Cleansing Fire. Finally they beheld a 14-scene pageant, "March of the Monarchs," made up like the graduation service by Sister Aimee, in which accordion, saxophone and bell music was interspersed with appearances of Pharaoh, Herod, Attila, Napoleon, Edward VIII, Darwin, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Uncle Sam and Jesus Christ, the latter arriving before the massed cast in a turbulent...
High Tor (by Maxwell Anderson; Guthrie McClintic, producer). Playwright Anderson went as far away in time and space as 16th Century England to set the scene of his two best known works, Elizabeth the Queen and Mary of Scotland. Period of High Tor, his first verse comedy, is largely contemporary. Locale is just three miles down South Mountain Road from Maxwell Anderson's home near New City...
...than 500 legalists, old and young, liberal and radical, gathered in the stately chambers of the New York Bar Association to elect temporary local Guild officers. Looking down from their gilt frames, first U. S. Chief Justice John Jay and 19 past presidents of the Bar Association beheld a scene of fine parliamentary confusion, as scores of pent-up legal spirits strug gled to express themselves. In a two-hour session, highlighted by a plea "to call in a few lawyers" to restore order, Paul Kern, Manhattan Civil Service Commissioner, was elected president, two steering committees were appointed...