Word: swarts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After three months of bickering the Chicago Orchestral Association and the Chicago Federation of Musicians came to terms last week, ended all threats of the symphony disbanding (TIME, March 14). Swart James C. Petrillo, the Union's hard-fisted president, finally agreed to a minimum weekly wage scale of $75 as against this year's $90; a cut in the number of concerts from 126 to 100. The Orchestra is to have the choice of the number of players over & above a minimum of 87. (This year 97 musicians played under Conductor Frederick August Stock...
...producers of the world, gathered to come to terms with Russia. Momentous was the fact that for the first time Royal Dutch-Shell was prepared to forget the seizure of its wells in the Caucasus and to talk co-operation with Russia. Royal Dutch-Shell was represented not by swart Sir Henri Deterding, whose White Russian wife is another reason for his hating Red Russia, but by Jean Baptiste August Kessler, 45, whose father founded Royal Dutch, employed Sir Henri as his secretary. Royal Dutch's Kessler now has the position of managing director while Sir Henri is director...
Fairly typical of first-rate newshawks is short, swart, banjo-eyed Norman Klein, 35. As a cub reporter he covered churches for the Sioux City Tribune, migrated by jumps to the Chicago Daily News. For two years he served that paper as War correspondent on the British front. Next he worked for the Chicago Tribune as "the world's worst copyreader." Manhattan was his goal. He reached it in 1925, frittered away his money on Broadway before looking for a job. When the tabloid Mirror notified him he was hired, he stole an empty milk bottle to raise subway...
Only last year short, swart Senor Don Carlos Guillermo Davila, potent Chilean publisher, was hobnobbing in Washington with President Hoover and many another man of property. Senor Davila, as Chilean Ambassador and a leading negotiator in setting up the Chilean-U. S. nitrate trust (Cosach), looked and acted as though he would be the last man on earth to propose State Socialism. Last week he suddenly proposed it to the Chilean people in a bulky manifesto of 20,000 words, was accused of wanting to make himself President by a coup...
...Lansing, Ill., two men entered the Oak Glen Trust & Savings Bank. One was calm, swart, carried a machinegun. The other, nervous, blond, dapper, carried a pistol. The nervous blond was too embarrassed to take money from the cashier's drawer. Said his colleague: "Open the drawer, you lug." Later the blond's gun-hand shook so violently the gun discharged, the bullet going into the floor. Shouted his colleague, no longer calm: "You heat head, put that gun away before you shoot yourself." Said the blond, calmer now: "Quit picking on me. I'm doing the best...