Word: unionism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Speaking about the European situation as a whole, Hicks declared, "The aim of all recent British policy is to build Germany to the point where it can fight the Soviet Union...
Twenty Harvard Student Union delegates attended the fourth annual convention of the American Student Union in New York last week, and five other members of the University were present as visitors...
...centre in an open court, a colonnade of 48 timberwork columns, four abreast and twelve in a row, rises 100 feet to symbolize the States of the Union. At once simple, honest, impressive and cheap, this stunt utilizes the sky and water of the Bay. On each side of the columns Architect Pflueger designed other open courts, surrounded by a light and trimly built structure of four-by-eight-foot plywood panels, a strong, beautiful surface, more native than stucco to forested California. About 20 nations of the Pacific, from Peru to Japan, are building more or less authentic pavilions...
...earliest and greatest of nationalist composers was the late Edvard Hagerup Grieg of Norway, whose best biography to date was published last fortnight.* Born in 1843, while Norway was the weaker partner in a union with Sweden, Composer Grieg spent his student days in Germany, where he was influenced by the music of German Romantics Schumann and Mendelssohn. But all his classical musical education could not drive the smell of Norway's fishing boats and pine forests out of Grieg's nostrils. His music, delicately flavored with the weedy condiments of Norwegian folk song, soon won him world...
Hard at work ever since October, cudgeling their brains four days a week with the aid of a battery of experts, have been the six railroaders-Presidents Martin Withington Clement of Pennsylvania and Ernest Eden Norris of Southern, Vice Chairman Carl Raymond Gray of Union Pacific, Chairman George McGregor Harrison of the Railway Labor Executives' Association, President Bert Mark Jewell of the Railway Employes' Department of A. F. of L. and President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen. Last week, after Messrs. Gray and Harrison again conferred with Franklin Roosevelt, the committee finally...