Word: scene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meanwhile, the man who had done more than any ten others to make the steel drive possible was not only far from the scene of these significant activities, but did not even have a place on the organizing committee. Big as was the job of changing the labor structure of the nation's heaviest of heavy industries, John Llewellyn Lewis in the past few weeks had already moved on to larger operations. The United Mine Workers' president, the leader of the largest U. S. labor union, the founder and chairman of the Committee for Industrial Organization, John Lewis...
...Scene: Cleveland. No deer but any tame elephant would have felt at home that day in Cleveland's auditorium. The audience chattering, the band playing, the smell of fresh pine lumber, were mindful of a circus. Over the delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded in gauze. The voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down...
...Minneapolis, Helen Gross, 22, convinced that she had been unfairly arrested for speeding, refused to leave jail after her mother paid her fine, was ejected. Thereupon Helen Gross returned to the scene of her arrest, drove back & forth with a banner affixed to her car: "Picket! This car is traveling at a maximum speed, 20 miles per hour. Do Not Pass...
Deputies bustled into the Palais-Bour-bon last week for what was sure to be a wild scene, reception by the Chamber of new Premier Leon Blum, a prosperous and infirm old Socialist whose spidery limbs and thin beaked nose give him the air of a flamingo. Flapping gestures complete the illusion and Premier Blum last week was also bird-like in his air of being exquisitely preened and valeted. Spotless were his pearl-grey spats. Faint was his aroma of eau de Cologne. He had just set up one of the very largest Cabinets ever formed in France...
...IMMENSE SUN-Blair Niles- Bobbs-Merrill ($2.50). Historical romance set in 16th Century Peru. Author Niles, who spent two years on the scene absorbing local color, researching into Inca lore, turns out a monument to industry, if not artistry...