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Word: unionism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Designed "to acquaint students with opportunities for summer jobs of a specifically social nature," P.B.H. and the Student Union are jointly sponsoring a conference in the Leverett House Common room tomorrow night at 8 o'clock...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Conference on Summer Jobs Planned for Leverett House | 5/9/1939 | See Source »

Typically DeMille in its lavishness, Union Pacific officially cost Paramount "more than a million dollars," though it did not, despite Hollywood wags, cost more than the railroad itself. DeMille budgets are the result of an overmastering passion for detail and a policy of shooting everything in sight. Of the 205,000 feet of film exposed for Union Pacific, DeMille and his cutter, Anne Bauchens, threw away all but 12,158. On the set DeMille manipulates his mobs through a special public-address system. When unit directors go to remote locations, he stays in Hollywood, keeps in constant touch by telephone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...Union Pacific off to a rolling start last week in Omaha, where the Union Pacific got off to a slow start 74 years ago, Omaha's town fathers agreed to commemorate both events with a Golden Spike celebration. Some 20,000 Omahans joined "whiskers clubs" to act as unpaid extras, Omaha's obliging womenfolk togged themselves out in 1869 costumes, Omaha's stores and bars were flimflammed with pioneer signs and doodads. The school board decreed two Golden Spike holidays. Omaha's Roman Catholic Bishop James Hugh Ryan dispensed his flock from eating fish on Friday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 8, 1939 | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

...cost to Cambridge to the proposed project would be exceedingly small--$500,000--in comparison to the advantages that would be gained, there is no possible reason why any intelligent Cantabridgian should not sign the city-wide petition. The project will bring not only jobs which will pay union wages to Cambridge laborers but business to Cambridge merchants as well. It will mean that slum areas which are now rapidly depreciating in value will be rehabilitated. Furthermore, the cost to the city of police, fire protection, health service, and delinquency control will be greatly reduced by the abolition of these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AS YE SOW | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

Under the auspices of the American Civilization Committee, Stewart Holbrook, author and ex-reporter, will lecture tonight at 7:15 o'clock in the Upper Common Room of the Union. His subject will be "A Century of from and Steel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Holbrook to Talk in Union For American History Group | 5/8/1939 | See Source »

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