Word: seasons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With all the coaches present the spring football season was opened yesterday afternoon at Soldier's Field with all ceremony. Twenty-nine men reported to Head Coach Arnold Horween '20, at two o'clock and were taken in hand by Mr. Horween and assistants. Equipment was passed out and signed for, and each man was given a printed part to study...
Colorado's I. W. W. coal strike, current since October, ended last week. Wobbly Tom Connors, strike chief, announced that a statewide ballot (the second one cast within a month) was 88% in favor of returning to work. Another Wobbly leader gave the reason: "The slack season is upon us. It is foolish to strike when the bosses can meet the demand for coal by keeping a few scabs at work...
Both sides claimed victory, though the specific points at issue during the strike still awaited judgment by the Industrial Commission. The I. W. W. pointed to the perfection of an organization through which Colorado miners can exact higher wages when the slack season ends. Also, a Federal court decision in the strike's closing days restored to the strikers the right of habeas corpus, unconstitutionally denied them when Governor William H. Adams declared parts of Colorado to be in a "state of insurrection" (TIME...
...shoulders of yelling spectators. Alone in the ring with his handlers, a curly-headed Jew, Sidney Terris ("Pride of the Ghetto"), came slowly back to consciousness, asked what had happened, and began to cry. A single short right to the jaw had finished him. McLarnin, boxing sensation of the season, is matched to fight loafing Lightweight-Champion Samuel Mandell in June...
...That four U. S. premieres will be given next season at the Metropolitan Opera House: Richard Strauss' Aegyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen) the title role to be sung by Maria Jeritza for whom it was written, who also will sing it at the Vienna premiere on June 11, the birthday of the composer; Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf (Johnny Strikes Up) with a black-faced comedian for the leading character; Respighi's Campana Sommersa (The Sunken Bell) and Pizzetti's Fra Gherardo. . . . That the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Directors have abandoned the three-million-dollar...