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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Relative your article TIME, June 7 on the word "jalopy" and Webster R. Kent's comments (TIME, June 21), I think you are both in error. Approximately ten years ago while in a Los Angeles café with the late Herbert Somborn, ex-husband of Gloria Swanson, approximately eight mulatto dancing girls appeared. Mr. Somborn exclaimed: "What beautiful jalopies!" Pressing him for information, he stated that a jalopy was anything half black and that the word originated in a certain part of Africa, where plurals are unknown, and a jalopy is a African half black geese...
...word last week came from youthful President José Antonio de Aguirre y Lecube of the Basque Republic who had fled with his Government. For all he was worth Generalissimo Franco pushed on to Santander knowing that every day's delay would help Santander rally its defenses. Cracked soon it had to be if Spain is to be conquered and Madrid captured this summer. Leftist Madrid has talked of taking a general offensive ever since the Negrin Government came into power in Valencia. Lack of material and properly trained men has always been the Leftists' greatest handicap...
...Committee for Industrial Organization, but served notice that it was out for industrial bear by voting 118 ½-to-18 ½ for industrial unionization- which would mean eventual Guild membership for every last copy boy, circulation solicitor and advertising stenographer in a newspaper plant (TIME, June 21). Hardly had word of this bold decision dried on the front pages of the nation's press than the publishers answered the challenge. Goaded to action by chesty little James Geddes ("Jimmy") Stahlman, publisher of the Nashville Banner and newly elected president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, the ten leading...
Lord Headley died at 80 two years ago. From London last week came word of a ceremony he would have enjoyed- the cornerstone-laying of London's new mosque. To be built on a $140,000 site in West Kensington, the Nizamiah Mosque is so called because the biggest donation for it, $300,000, was wangled by Lord Headley from the Nizam of Hyderabad & Berar, "world's richest man" (TIME, Feb. 22). Trustees of the mosque include the Aga Khan. The cornerstone was laid by the Nizam's son, the Prince of Berar, to whom the present...
...Canning & Pickle Workers' Union against Heinz Co., which had recognized a company union for collective bargaining. Fathers Rice & Hensler went down to the pickle workers' picket line, hoisted signs declaring "The Catholic Radical Alliance supports the Heinz strikers." Horrified, the pickets begged the priests to cover the word "Radical" on their signs. Night before an election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board, the three priests appeared at a mass meeting of Heinz workers, Monsignor O'Toole telling his predominantly Catholic audience that "modern finance-capitalism" is as Godless as Communism. The Pickle Workers' Union...