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...days at least 20 people were shot dead, 40 wounded. Borrowing an idea from Aristophanes' Lysistrata, hundreds of frightened strikers' wives paraded through the streets behind a banner "Children Before Politics" and declared a wives' strike of their own, swearing that their husbands should have neither food nor affection until they went back to work...
...were reserved for 3,000 school children to sing to them from Nemuro beach; a green arch had been erected for them to walk under. Nemuro's geisha girls were ready to dance in their honor and a Banzai band had rehearsed, for their amazement. "The Star Spangled Banner." Finally, the fog lifted and the Lindberghs took off from Petropavlovsk, a day behind schedule...
Alongside the control car, an envied company of eight white-uniformed officers & 51 enlisted men, nucleus of the Akron's personnel, were to stand rigidly abreast of their skipper, Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl. An orchestra of 500 high-school pupils was to render "The Star Spangled Banner" and, as the last note whispered through the cavernous dock, Mrs. Hoover would yank the ribbon, opening the little hatch, tumbling out Frank Eisentrout's 48 astonished pigeons. Then it would be Zeno Wicks's moment to give the signal "up ship!" The workmen would slack off the mooring...
Cleveland music-lovers and city-boosters looked into the sky one afternoon last week for a portent. Suddenly from the Union Terminal Tower a great white banner with a diagonal red stripe was flung to the breeze. The weather that evening would be fine. The Opera...
Behind the banner were months of elaborate and painstaking organization which were to give the city its first outdoor opera. It would not be the Metropolitan troupe which Senator Robert Johns Bulkley brings to the city every year through his Northern Ohio Opera Association, but a gigantic al fresco show, home-produced in the month-old Municipal Stadium. Beneficiary of the performance was the Cleveland Press's milk fund. Purpose was to entertain those of the citizenry who like music and those who like spectacles. A further purpose was to illuminate iron-mongering Cleveland's place...