Word: wideness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rights as U.A.W.'s elected president and cocking a rebellious snook at John L. Lewis himself, Mr. Martin summarily dismissed four of his vice presidents, including the Messrs. Frankensteen and Mortimer, and Secretary-Treasurer George Addes. He told six restive board members they would lay themselves "wide open to suspension" if they left the meeting. As one, the six walked out, leaving President Martin & friends in command of a union now publicly split...
...only charge that the Dean's Office can legitimately lay on House doorsteps is that their dances bring undue notoriety to the College. It should be remembered, however, that this odor of debauchery is smelled only by the bluer noses of Boston society, and is nothing to the nation-wide publicity that would attend a University "trot...
...building is 188 feet long, 66 feet wide, and 40 feet in wall height. The exterior will be finished with brick, and the roof will be covered with red slates taken from the old Hemenway and will be surmounted by a lantern carrying the weathervane of the former building...
...Wheaton College project has been called the most important competition in U. S. architecture since the world-wide competition for the Chicago Tribune Tower in 1922. No such soaring mass of steel and stone, as the 36-story Tribune Building, the College's proposed art centre is nevertheless a sizable, $500,000 building, requiring a theatre to seat 500, a small auditorium for lectures, an art library, workshops, lecture rooms, studios, galleries, soundproof practice rooms for the music department...
Vandalism had not been unknown in Kansas City but, with "Wally" Mahan's rise to power, it became a "wave." Its most frequent form was window-breaking with an occasional bombing for emphasis. Victims were owners of a wide variety of stores, from statuary shops to hamburger stands, who spurned the suggestions of North Side thugs masquerading as union organizers...