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...Expelled all but one of the seven C.I.O. unions which retained nominal ties with the Federation. Exception was the potent International Ladies Garment Workers Union, whose peace-minded President David Dubinsky continues to waver between his devotion to C.I.O. industrial-union principles and his opposition to the projected formation of a permanent organization of C.I.O. affiliates. Three weeks ago Attorney Padway, who previously has represented I.L.G.W.U., lunched with Mr. Dubinsky, inspired a reasonable guess that no small part of the general counsel's duties in the near future will be to woo the waverer, invite him and the union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Fresh Butter | 5/16/1938 | See Source »

...course the vertical needle on the dial will waver to one side. If he is off the glide beam, the horizontal needle rises or falls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Blind | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

...committee and Mayor Benjamin F. Stapleton that Denver should have Ronnebeck or nothing. Leader of the Commission was fiftyish Anne Evans, weathered, spirited daughter of the first territorial governor of Colorado, patron of the summer theatre festival at Central City (TIME, July 26). Less exacting Commissioners began to waver when local ar- chitects declared that the Zorach memorial would not fit into Denver's $1,000,000 Civic Center. Then Mayor Stapleton dismissed two old members of the Commission, appointed two new ones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Denver Memorial | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...word on every issue. Mr. Norris, who "may be wrong," in nearly every fight finds it impossible to believe that his opponents have honest motives. Disillusioned Mr. Norris never gives up a fight no matter how often it may be lost. He sticks when other Progressives in the Senate waver. All his successes are 'due to the fact that through years of weary waiting, his cocked eye-brow has never grown weary while he watchfully waited for an opportunity to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEBRASKA: R. F. D. to F. D. R. | 1/11/1937 | See Source »

Captains Gaffney and Morrell then mentioned to Irwin that they would like to start playing again if he didn't want the field any more. "Yes", said the baton waver. As the referee approached for the fifth round the music ended in a triumphant and defiant thunder of drums, and the Band with proud smiles, retired in orderly retreat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STUBBORN BAND MOWS DOWN OFFICIALS AND FINISHES JOB | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

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