Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John L. Lewis of the Committee for Industrial Organization. Equally ineffectual was General Hugh S. Johnson, engaged by RCA as mediator. At first the strike was marked by nothing more violent than United Workers cheering pickets on with Sousa marches blared through a loudspeaker. RCA retaliated by playing raucous Victor records from a loudspeaker atop its plant. Music failed as a pacifier, however, when RCA began employing strikebreakers. Pickets jabbed girl employes with pins, hurled eggs filled with paint. From the factory non-strikers heaved back red pepper, hot metal, light bulbs loaded with ammonia...
...Leader Lewis was given free time by National Broadcasting Co., subsidiary of Radio Corp. of America, whose Victor plant at Camden, N. J. was last week fighting a strike of United Electrical & Radio Workers backed and partly financed by Leader Lewis and his Committee...
...Belle Isle near Detroit this week the Detroit Symphony, heeled with $185,000 raised in a maintenance drive, was to begin the first series of free nightly concerts since 1931. Conductor: Victor Kolar of the Ford radio symphony...
...annual award of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the best performance by an actor went to (1 Charles Laughton-Mutiny on the Bounty, 2 Charles Chaplin-Modern Times, 3 Leslie Howard-Petrified Forest, 4 Jean Hersholt - The Country Doctor, S Victor McLaglen-The Informer...
Died. Nathan Burkan, 56, Rumanian-born expert on copyright and contract law; of acute indigestion; in Great Neck, L. I. Among his clients were Composer Victor Herbert, the late Florenz Ziegfeld, Al Jolson, Gary Cooper, Constance Bennett, Ina Claire, Mrs. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt...