Word: schreiber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HELEN SCHREIBER Philadelphia...
Outwardly France was calm. Bitter winter was at hand, but so long as the soft autumn days lasted, people tried to forget. Madame Suzanne Schreiber, attending the annual Radical Party Congress in Nice, splashed like hundreds of others in the sea. As the Paris art season opened, Modernist Painter Man Ray's Le Beau Temps (Fair Weather) caused a mild buzz. A world congress of magicians bemused the Paris public in acts-one of which, said a wag, should be called the comrade and the fellow traveler. On Montmartre the celebration of the grape harvest turned into a fancy...
Leroy Adolph Schreiber...
Called into the dispute by the Council, the Prime Minister (and ex-locomotive driver) Joseph B. Chifley, himself a union man, talked it over with Brigadier Schreiber, heard his denial of the Fields' charges. The Council officially: (1) blacklisted the whole Schreiber household by denying it all union services, such as delivery of groceries, household repairs, gardening chores; 2) ordered the Kingston to reinstate Field on threat of extending the boycott to three Canberra hotels; 3) requested the Prime Minister to send Schreiber back where he came from-England...
This week the crusade ended. Field, not Schreiber, went back-to the Kingston's taps. The interdict against Schreiber was lifted...