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Manhattan balletomanes hardly had time to catch their breath; even before the New York City Ballet had closed the doors on its three-week fall season, Ballet Theatre rang up the curtain for three weeks at the Met. The big interest in Ballet Theatre's program last week centered on two new numbers...
...everybody in the union movement, learning the problems of labor & capital inside out. In 1933, when unions began their great upsurge under the New Deal and unionists and their friends became Washington powers, all his "dead work" paid off. The Times sent him to the capital on a "temporary" three-week assignment (which did not end until last week). In his first two days he scored two beats one on the creation of the N.R.A.), causing some admiring competitors to say that Stark had been sent to Washington "on a contract to deliver a beat once...
With the House off on a three-week holiday, Senators bent their backs to a grueling double chore. One was the job of cutting expenditures, in which President Truman, continually suggesting ways to spend money, gave little help. The other was to squeeze out of the taxpayers, without squeezing them dry, enough new funds to meet the huge Government outlays...
...three-week vacation from congressional worries, House Speaker Sam Rayburn heard some bad news from his home in Bonham, Texas: 5,000 bales of his summer hay, stored in a barn before it was cured, had caught fire by spontaneous combustion, burned down the barn, crop...
About one-third of it will go abroad, to further world peace by a kind of private Point Four program. Last week the Foundation gave $1,309,500 to the Free University of Berlin. Then Director Paul Hoffman and some of his top officials set off for a three-week tour of Europe and Asia to see what else they could...