Word: tenth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Chicago music lovers were squirming last winter under the worst Chicago operas they had ever heard. Conductor Ebba Sundstrom was swooping her Woman's Symphony Orchestra through its tenth, most gratifying season (TIME, Dec. 16, 1935). Long before her last concert it became clear that the Opera's loss was the Symphony's gain, that the woman's orchestra might look for more subscriptions, bigger patrons this autumn. Flushed with success, many patrons felt that a more dynamic, impressive conductor than Ebba Sundstrom should be billed. As a compromise, they packed her off to Europe...
...Manhattan's Radio City, LIFE'S cameramen recorded National Broadcasting Co.'s tenth birthday with candid studio shots of such favorites as Gossip Walter Winchell, Exhibitionist Gypsy Rose Lee (with clothes on), Singer Jessica Dragonette, Funnyman Jack Benny and Maestro Rudy Vallee. In The President's Album, a feature which will be continued weekly, LIFE showed shots which Franklin Roosevelt might well paste up in his scrapbook...
...While the horizontal unions now have some 2,500,000 members, there are 23,000,000 workers whom the A.F. of L. has failed to attract at all along craft lines, and presumably these men will join industrial unions. While the American Federation of Labor is left with one tenth of the eligible workers, the C.I.O. gets the res, and in view of the comparative sizes the desertion of the Federation is not the same as knifiing the whole labor front...
...settle whether a law passed by the Legislature in 1935 should go into effect. Called modestly a retail store license, it provided a $1 tax on the first store in a chain, $2 on the second, $4 on the third and so on up to $500 on the tenth and each subsequent store. Gasoline stations and beauty parlors were exempted, but other chain stores, led by Safeway with 1,300 stores, got the help of Adman Don Francisco of Lord & Thomas (who two years ago waged a successful fight to defeat Upton Sinclair for Governor) and launched a desperate campaign...
...Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph of the late Harry Houdini. This Halloween was the tenth anniversary of Harry Houdini's death in Detroit...