Word: groups
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...biggest and homeliest (in every sense of the word) borough of New York City (population circa 2,300,000). It has just begun to erect skyscrapers, is jeered at by many Manhattanites who used to live there, has been variously entitled the bedroom of New York City, a group of small towns, "the city of churches," and New York's "rive gauche" (left bank). But Brooklyn has an esthetic tradition all its own. There lived Poet Walt Whitman, Critic James Gibbons Huneker, Artist Joseph Pennell. There in the picturesque "Brooklyn Heights" section overlooking New York Harbor, live many refugees...
...four women it was adventure worth $20 per hour; to 42 men. officers and crew, it was a 23-day routine; to Dr. Hugo Eckener and a group of officials in Berlin it was a momentous bid for future supremacy in Europe-South America commerce when the Graf Zeppelin poked its nose through murky skies over Friedrichshafen last week and started its 18,000-mile flight to Seville, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro; thence to Havana, Lakehurst, N. J., and home. Every attempt was made to emphasize the casual business-like aspect of the flight. Little excitement attended the takeoff, save...
...first settlers of Bethlehem, Pa., were a small religious group of Moravians (followers of John Huss) who, according to legend, held their first meeting in a stable, thus gave the place its name. Later, during the Revolutionary War, the Moravians attracted attention to Bethlehem by taking the lead off the roof of their church, melting it down for Colonial bullets. General George Washington was serenaded by the Moravian Trombone Choir, already an important group of trumpeters whose chief function was to announce festival days, births and deaths, from the church belfry. He also went to the church, listened...
...Cause. No doctrinaire Socialist, Debs participated in the rise of the "cooperative commonwealth" theory in the U. S., saw Socialism split and divide again and again. With each group he would lose patience and move leftward. The Knights of Labor were too idealistic for him, too nonmilitant. The A. F. of L. (''Unionism pure and simple") was too non-political under Samuel Gompers. The railway brotherhoods, opposed to strikes, sought too hard to become "respectable." The Industrial Workers of the World gave promise of a big rival union until it be came an organization of bums addicted to sabotage. Debs...
...some defense or at least clarification. They are first that the ballots contained no place for signatures, second, that the Junior ballots did not contain the names of the present members of the Student Council, and finally, that the lists in general were not representative of every type or group...