Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it started bargaining last fall on a new contract, the New England unit (around 12,000 members) of the C.I.O.'s United Shoe Workers of America loudly demanded a raise of 15? an hour. Last week it quietly signed a contract with 90 Massachusetts factories without a boost in pay, thus became the first big union to forgo a raise this year...
...coming lawyer began to take an interest in the St. Louis Symphony Society, thus met James K. Vardaman, an old friend of Politician Harry Truman. When "Jake" Vardaman went into the Navy, he left the legal end of his business in Clifford's hands. The Vardaman Shoe Co. was being liquidated. Clifford tied up the loose ends...
...Down. Yale's President Charles Seymour picked a big businessman (American Brake Shoe's President Bill Given) to head a "committee on university development." It cost $7,500,000 to run Yale in 1941; more than $12 million in 1947. President Seymour wanted alumni to shell out ("The only alternative is deterioration in a Yale education"). Yale has already increased its tuition charges for undergraduates to $600, and doesn't feel it can raise them any more...
Huckster Nietzsche. The 19th Century's Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche made the grade in 20th Century advertising. In the New York Times, John Ward shoe stores led off an ad for a "neither staid nor stuffy" shoe with the Nietzschean quote: "I am not successful at being pompous...
...Italian movies go, "To Live in Peace" is good but definitely not up to the pace set by "Open City" or "Shoe Shine." Aldo Fabrizzi is magnificent as the perplexed villager who doesn't know what to do with two escaped American prisoners of war, and there are some beautifully directed scenes. The weak link in the structure is the ending, which is forced and sentimental, entirely without the natural power of other Italian products...