Word: swing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last March President George L. Berry of the Printing Pressmen's Union, whom President Roosevelt made official caretaker of the Blue Eagle's benes, announced the organization of a "NonPartisan League," whose partisan object was to swing Labor's votes to Roosevelt next autumn. Co-organizers of the League were two potent proponents of industrial unionism: John Llewellyn Lewis, whose United Mine Workers had already pledged themselves to Roosevelt, and President Sidney Hillman of Amalgamated Clothing Workers. Their immediate aim was to keep Postmaster General Farley from naming President Daniel Tobin...
...other half of this unusual combination, Will Hudson, is one of the country's leading arrangers and composers. He had written "White Heat", "Tormented", and his latest, "Organ-Grinder's Swing", was first played last-week...
...loss of Chaco, Varsity stroke, the outcome of the Compton Cup regatta with M.I.T. next Saturday is viewed by Nowell Boat House habitues with optimism, Chaco, due to a cold, was unable to set the beat yesterday and Roger Cutler, second string timer, took over the job. Cutler will swing the Varsity oar again today until Chaco's recovery, anticipated by the doctor on Wednesday, puts him back at stroke in the second boat. In the Jayvees yesterday Kernan went forward to pull the number two sweep and Roosevelt returned to his post...
Odds were increasing that the French elections would swing to the Left, which would probably mean that he, Joseph Paul-Boncour, would go back as French Foreign Minister. He personally was entirely in favor of an oil ban on Italy, or anything else that his good friend Eden would suggest, but his constituents were...
...second. Even Chace's competence at stroke failed to prevent a certain amount of splashing and rushing in the informal race. Added to this is the fact that at the pull through, balance is disturbed, making recovery difficult, by the tendency of the shell as a whole to swing with the oar, leaning out of the vertical. If these faults can be eradicated before the race, Whiteside will have good crew, but not by any means to judge from present appearances, a remarkable...