Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Donald Henderson's union claims 124,-750 members, reportedly has a dues-paying membership of about 15,000. S. T. F. U. claims 35,000, concedes that no more than 3,000 can pay dues at any one time. To figures like these, and to troubles like S. T. F. U.'s, A. F. of L. points as evidence that C. I. 0. should grow up and heal its sores before it tries to make peace on its own terms...
Next day the lecture was reported in every big newspaper in the world. Reason : the quiet, didactic speaker was Joseph Stalin, and his well-behaved class was the 18th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Although nothing like the rants which Herr Hitler broadcasts to the world, the speech was a big event-both because Stalin seldom sounds off on Russian and international affairs, and because the Congress was the first in five long years during which the repeatedly purged Communist Party has come to look as little like its former self as a muzhik...
...when Recorder John Price asked Starter McHugh to sign the affidavit certifying the performance for acceptance by the Amateur Athletic Union, McHugh shook his head, took the pen and wrote, "I certify that it was a false start. Borican, the winner, beat the gun by about one yard." Asked why he had not called the runners back, Veteran McHugh replied: "Truthfully, I don't know...
Already on view are Let Freedom Ring and Stagecoach. In production are Union Pacific, Dodge City and The Return of The Cisco Kid. Projected by the Marx Brothers is an epic entitled Go West, which will aim to end the cycle by burlesquing it. In The Oklahoma Kid, the current vogue of the Western is dramatically exemplified by the fact that in it James Cagney, whose cinema career has taken him as far toward the great open spaces as gangsters' hideouts, appears equipped with sombrero, cowboy suit, lasso and two remarkably effective hoss pistols...
...Niemöller began his second year in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he is confined for refusing to cut his faith to Nazi patterns. In the U. S., The Federal Council of Churches asked its constituents to devote attention to Pastor Niemöller's anniversary. In the Union Church of Bay Ridge (Brooklyn), Presbyterian Rev. John Paul Jones acceded. As he mounted his pulpit, he was seized and dragged away by two parishioners in brown shirts. Then a painted prison set labeled "Sachsenhausen" was stood before the pulpit. Mr. Jones appeared behind it, preached a sermon on Niemoller...