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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That put the fat in the fire. Strike Leader Martin had got the sit-downers to evacuate two General Motors plants in Detroit and one at Anderson, Ind. Before starting to Flint to evacuate the two remaining plants, Mr. Martin became outraged. He made a speech to a union rally in Detroit not only repeating previous charges that Mr. Boysen was a too of General Motors but denouncing the Flint Alliance as a collection of house wives and members of the Black Legion Then he went to Flint, harangued a meeting and it was voted not to evacuate the Flint...
...World Series," Rockola put $250,000, paid $5,000 more last week for the personal appearance and blessing of Pitcher Dizzy Dean. Popular with "World Series" players, gamboling Dizzy Dean drew catcalls at the Association's annual banquet when he devoted two out of three minutes of his speech to plugging Rock...
...Field & Stream's hearty Publisher Eltinge F. Warner disguised as Donald Duck, with a large basket on his arm. Squawking, he advanced to the speaker's table, pumped the hand of Connecticut's onetime Senator Frederic Walcott who was presiding as toastmaster, launched into a falsetto speech acknowledging the gratitude of ducks for what the diners were doing for them. This done, he started for the door, stumbled, dropped his basket. Out popped three live wild ducks, which went flapping up & down the room to the hilarious confusion of the distinguished but convivial banqueters...
Eastman devoted the last half of his speech to a defense of public service agencies. He asserted that delay, due to so-called bureaucratic red-tape, was a result of the difficulty in interpreting laws, knowing what evidence to accept and exclude, and making a decision fully backed by the most minute detail. If all these factors were not taken into account, endless litigation would quickly follow. But the greatest cause for delay, Eastman believes, is the vast undertaking of collecting data on large interstate organizations...
...much better. Only a few characters--the fool (McKeuzie Ward), Audrey the shepherdess (Doris Fordred), and, most of all. Leon Quatermaine as Jacques, escape a deadly conventionality in acting which oppresses the majority of the cast. Jacques's superb rendition of the "All the World's a Stage" speech makes a dull-evening a happy one. But for the others a tremendous consciousness that they were acting Shakespeare seemed to add pounds to every word, gesture and expression. The feeling assailed one after the first few lines and remained rarely contradicted throughout...