Word: spades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fill Hillman's job as president of the Amalgamated, the clothing workers chose another old Hillman follower: secretary-treasurer Jacob S. Potofsky. His greying spade beard gives him the appearance of an elegant professor. He is a devout conservative and a hardheaded labor businessman...
Dratvin had tossed a brick during one of last month's Coordinating Committee sessions (where most of the spade work for the more publicized Control Council is performed). He called for a four-power investigation to find out whether the British were keeping German army units poised in their zone. Britain agreed. Then the U.S. representative, Lieut. General Lucius D. Clay, went further: "While we're at it, let's have a real investigation of economic disarmament in all zones...
...music but also a successful promoter, Hugues deserves credit for having blown the breath of life into that walloping organization, The Hot Club of France, and was instrumental in forming the French recording company called Swing. On his whirlwind visit to this country circa 1938, he did the spade work on Victor's re-issuing program, organized those lusty Mezzrow-Ladnier Quintet sessions on Bluebird, and godfathered one of Basie's best waxings, the Panassie Stomp...
There was no fuss or picketing. The mighty U.M.W., long since as disciplined as a squad of marines, needed only a flick of John L. Lewis' shaggy black brows. In 23 states, 400,000 miners simply stayed home to spade their gardens, wet a line in a good sucker stream or sit back and warm a well-calloused toe on the kitchen stove. Mine operators sent all but a skeleton force of supervisors home...
...John A. Mackay spoke his concern over Catholic clericalism and its "vilification" of Protestant leaders (TIME, March 25). Last week New York's Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam, president of the Federal Council of Churches, chose the Catholic stronghold of Boston to set forth the Protestant grievance in spade-calling terms. Excerpts...