Word: fay
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Night before Thanksgiving, Dubinsky dropped into the bar of the Hotel Roosevelt. Joseph Fay, who once was shot by a policeman, rose to become boss of building trade unions in New Jersey, was there before him. It was after midnight. Fay, according to witnesses and his later acknowledgment, had been drinking since 5 in the afternoon. Others in the bar included George E. Browne, president of the stage hands' union, 12th vice president of A. F. of L. Once charged with being the "front" for the Capone mob, Browne boasted among officials of his union Willie Bioff, convicted panderer...
...Fay strode up to Dubinsky and began denouncing the anti-racketeer resolution as "the dirtiest, lousiest resolution" he had ever seen. A friend of Dubinsky started to argue. Fay swung at him. Fay friends charged, fists flew. A Dubinskyite and Fayster clinched and rolled on the floor. Dubinsky's daughter was thrown to her knees. It was minutes before the battlers were pulled apart. Browne had tactfully vanished at the start of the fray...
...afternoon session was opened by Professor Sidney B. Fay '96, who spoke on "What the Nazi Revolution Means." Professor Fay, an authority on German history and culture, traced the accomplishments and failures of Nazism in terms of German morale...
...Radcliffe Forum announced yesterday that it will hold a conference on "America's State in the World Crisis" this Monday in Agassiz House which faculty members and students may attend. Tickets may be obtained for both the afternoon and evening sessions at the Radcliffe Dean's office in Fay House. Mail and telephone requests will also be filled...
Sidney B. Fay '96, authority on German thought and history, who will speak on "What the Nazi Revolution Means"; John K. Fairbank '29, who has spent four studying the contemporary scene in China, on, "America Faces the Future in the Far East"; and William L. Langer '15, Coolidge Professor of History, who will talk on "Problems in the Balkans...