Word: terme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although the Seattle election was a blow to the long-term political aspirations of labor as a whole, the C. I. O. was comforted by Beck's defeat and by the fact that it was left with a Mayor who would at least be neutral instead of its sworn enemy in labor's internecine war. Mayor-Elect Langlie specifically promised this neutrality but warned: "It's up to labor to clean its own house. However, labor will not be permitted to step on the toes of innocent persons in its various activities...
...succeed resigned Joseph A. Broderick in the longest (14 years) term on the Federal Reserve Board, Franklin Roosevelt nominated bright-eyed Assistant Secretary of Commerce Ernest Gallaudet Draper, whose job it was to ride herd on the riotous Little Businessmen's Conference in Washington (TIME, Feb. 14). Six years out of Amherst, in 1912 Ernest Draper became president of American Creosoting Co., in 1920 shifted to vice president of Hills Brothers Co., packers of Dromedary Dates. Long prominent in such groups as the New York State Advisory Commission on Minimum Wage and Secretary of Commerce Daniel Roper...
...known professors. For this group, twelve girl students were enlisted to serve wine. These students did not imbibe; their's but to stand and wait. A part of the Radcliffe Choral Society which entertained at dinner, however, did receive some of the "alcoholic depressant," as the preacher chose to term good sherry, although certainly not in such quantities as to outrage the memory of Mrs. Cabot, a former temperance worker, in the building dedicated to her name...
...Strikors were scornfully called "academists"(a term of opprobrium) because they thought that a university was a place to study even in revolutionary times. One method of combating the "academists," known as "chemical obstruction," was to toss crudely constructed "stink bombs" in the lecture halls...
...Kansas City Philharmonic signed up permanent conductors. To Pittsburgh went pudgy, astringent Fritz Reiner who, since resigning from the leadership of the Cincinnati Symphony in 1931, has guest-conducted here and there and headed the orchestra department of Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Kansas City signed its first long-term contract with U. S.-born Karl Krueger who, during the past five years, has been whipping its depression-born orchestra into a first-class organization...