Word: john
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...electrical workers picketed the Triangle Conduit & Cable Co. in Flushing, L. I., then President John McAuliffe's house, then his country club...
...Hamilton, Ont., the Rev. S. Banks Nelson preached on "Fire, Fire, Fire," basing his remarks on John the Baptist. Two nights later his church burned down...
Vocational schools were on three shifts and a 24-hour day. Since July, some 600 schools throughout the land had enrolled 215,000 mechanics, had already sent 115,000 of them to work in defense factories. Boomed big, bulb-nosed Dr. John Calvin Wright, Assistant U. S. Commissioner of Vocational Education: "The vocational training program is right on schedule...
...trainer. But Boston's dumfounded fight fans booed and whistled. Joe Louis recently agreed to defend his championship once a month-against second-raters like Red Burman, Gus Dorazio, Tony Novak, Abe Simon. If the rest of this series of fights-cooked up by his co-managers, John Roxborough, Julian Black, and Promoter Mike Jacobs-make Louis look as mediocre as he did in Boston, they may not work out badly for Messrs. Roxborough and Black. They had scheduled Louis for an outdoor fight with Billy Conn next June. If by that time people think the champ is slipping...
...Foolishness (by Paul Vincent Carroll, produced by John Golden) is another misty Irish play, by the author of The White Steed and Shadow and Substance. Maeve McHugh is loved by three brothers-a farmer, a scholar, a Communist fighter. She finds herself unable to belong exclusively to any of them, but always wedded in part, if not in the flesh, to a mystical spirit. It is suggested that she represents Ireland itself. The author may have meant this or something else, but his drama is as vague and uncrystallized as the moonbeams that flood one of the scenes. Sally...