Word: disbanded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the House of Habsburg fell in 1918, the Vienna choir had to disband. Six years later Father Josef Schnitt, a priest at the Former Imperial Chapel, reorganized it, for two years fed, clothed and educated the boys out of his own pocket. By 1926 Father Schnitt's savings were gone and the Wiener Sängerknaben went on tour...
...success of the new officers. Elected amid voicing of universal opinion that the Clubs this year reached a low ebb, these officers are entrusted with the task of reviving enthusiasm. Specific plans are as yet unsettled, but the purposeful attitude of the members who voted down a motion to disband contrasts favorably with last autumn's lethargic rehearsals...
Even so. when the Ohio rushed down on Cairo, Ill. at the junction of the Mississippi with 57 ft. of water, almost a foot above the record level, Army engineers decided to use force to disband armed farmers who were preventing them from blasting out a protective "fuse plug" to route floodwaters through the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway. Prolonged and abnormal local rains had already sunk Arkansas farther into its gumbo, raised the waters of many a Mississippi tributary. Little Rock reported that twelve State highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres...
...liberal, materialize, it would be a tall feather in the miner's cap of John Lewis. Last fortnight the long brawl between the A. F. of L. and his C. I. O. came to a head with the Federation's Executive Council demanding that C. I. O. disband within 30 days or be suspended (TIME, Aug. 17). Last week Miner Lewis did exactly what every one expected, flatly and finally refused to disband, ordered his 500,000 miners to contribute $1 each for Roosevelt's reelection, sailed for Europe...
Most leaders who once fought John Lewis have since joined him. A. F. of L.'s President William Green, dedicated by his office to the craft tradition, has made himself look silly by continuing to order Lewis' Committee for Industrial Organization to disband under pain of excommunication. No one knows better than "Bill" Green that it takes two-thirds of a Federation convention to banish member unions, that the Committee for Industrial Organization represents more than a third of the entire A. F. of L. membership. Best current guess is that William Green will make his peace with...