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SDF News NATIONAL Locals of the Social Democratic Federation in varfm,* rfts of the country are becomng aflSKataH SSkan Labor Committee to Aid bShat Vth the ?3«of the Committee to-Def^,^1^.^...
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...Some stated that he shouted, "Do you mean Father Curran...
...Several rioted laborites had already planned a huge public dinner in his honor,, but Mr...
...The same may be said for anything written as late as the early twentieth century...
...Send-off to our branch organizer, Louis Goldberg, who has been drafted...
...The crowd kept roaring for five minutes...
...Thomas greeted Lindy when he finished, and some one offered the flyer some HB ceughdrops...
...The mam he referred to was Samuel Lincoln Kaufman of the non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League...
...Morris Hillquit Branch meets Monday, June 2, 8:30 p. m., at 129 Brighton Beach Ave...
...The meetings till start at'8:30 p. m. with short speeches by branch members...
...The management and the staff warmly join the labor and Jewish movements in acclaiming Alexander Kahn in his sixtieth year and wishing him many years of continued activity...
...The music, folk tunes for the most part, has .been "refurbished, but with an ear toward capturing the old manner, not modernizing it...
...May 23...
...Roland Hayes, the great tenor, is one of the few Negroes with tiained voices who can sing spirituals in the folk manner, even to the dropping of the voice at the end of certain phrases...
...We are with you until victory...
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...Matters pertaining to summer activities and aid to British workers will be acted upon...
...Later consensus agreed that he had shouted "Wait until Father Curran gets you...
...Elizabeth Dilling in the last issue of- ike Round'- Table letter issued by the Patriotic Research Bureau...
...This and other professional entertainment will assure everyone a good time...
...Mr, Kahn is also a noted figure in Jewish welfare work, serving for many years as a member of the executive committee of the Joint''Distribution Committee and tha> Jewish Agency for Palestine...
...25,000 in Aid Allies Group Back FDR's Speech President Roosevelt this week received the following telegram from the New York Chapter of the Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies: "We, the 25,000 members of the New York Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies, solemnly pledge our unstinted devotion to the task you have set for the nation...
...Reproduction is faithful and full, surface scratch is very slight...
...And he flftng his arms out inthe classie-"~ ally heroic-Shakespearean gesture oi "kill me...
...Open-air meetings for S.D.F...
...June 13, "Democ-aey versus Dictatorship...
...With the death of B. Charney Vladeck, he became its general manager...
...Marian Anderson's superiority lies not only in her voice but in intrepretation and phrasing...
...August Claessens will be present...
...p. * * In, deriding the theory that "Omaha can be attacked," or that "we have to fight in Singapore to save Omaha," Thomas wrung his hands in girlish fashion* and' mimicked the-"hysterical cries of those" who say America will' be' attacked, or that we have to fight overseas to see to it that America wont be attacked...
...Refreshments free...
...For many years he was its legal counsel...
...Norris smiled,' hot'Thomas was tight-lipped and grave throughout the cheering...
...Sitting in the first row of- the press section was George Bdian, Romanian Iron Guardist leader...
...The passage of centuries has not made John Gay's lyrics musty...
...Thomas seemed worried and concerned the whole first part of the evening, but' relaxed as the speeches wore on until during Wheeler's' speech he was enthusiastically clapping with the rest...
...Amalgamated Cooperative Branch will hold a business meeting on Monday, June 2, in the Assembly Room...
...Along with Morris Hillquit and Meyer London, he was one of the founders of the Socialist Party, and in many elections was a candidate for important offices...
...Following was Kathleen Norris, Charles Lindbergh and Burton Wheeler in a palm beach suit...
...This latest version, happily enough, is not an "interpretation," although the Scherzo suffers a little from the-Stokowski bounce...
...Admission is by contributions (sheets, towels, sweaters, clothing, in good condition, or donation of money...
...Bqat Ride on Saturday, August 9. August CJaessens will deliver a series of out-door lectures every Friday evening in June, beginning June 6, at corner Coney tjbwd and Brighton Beach Aves., Brighton Beach...
...Simon Berlin will be honored at a Testimonial Dinner to be given him in appreciation of his many years of splendid servicdk to the Socialist and Labor movement...
...Anne Morrow Lindbergh who had been sitting quietly behind her husband in the second row, beamed' when he finished speaking...
...A; youngi hatchet-faced fellow with thick-glasses stood up in the fifth row and shouted to Flynn, "you're a fool...
...Victor, $5.50,) Jesus Maria Sanroma and Arthur Fiedler's Boston "Pops" Or-chestia giv:' a spritely performance of Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No...
...N'orris's speech when photographers caught sight of Mrs...
...Norris and Norman Thoma* in a Heil Hitler pose, repeating * the Pledge of Allegiance...
...1 in G Minor (Victor $3.50...
...For some strange reason, a recording of Valses Nobles et Sen ti men tales by Ravel has found its way into the monthly release list...
...The man was identified as George Gunning, Member' of' the Christian Front and Paul Revere Sen tinels who originated the tricolor postcard campaign to-" the President against the Lend-Lease bill...
...As Flynn continued that America First wanted no support from the fascists or their sympathizers,- the same hatched-faeed fellow still standing and shrieking, "bellowed something about Father Curran...
...Confiict-r ing statements came from nearby seatholders concerning his statement about' father Curran (friend of Coughlin, and one of the influential leaders of the Brooklyn diocese...
...Hunt who was- lauded by Mrs...
...Samuel Schwartz will render a complete report of the City Convention, Final arrangements for out-door forum...
...During most of those years he has been closely associated with the growth of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...These three old Chicago*ns recorded to originals for this date: Deuces Wild and The Last Time 1 Saw Chicago, this last a slow, moving blues, of a sober melancholy, with the clarinet playing weird and beautiful counterpoint to the extroardinarily expressive drums and the "chording" of the piano...
...With the possible exception of the Decca and Columbia reissues, I should say that this is the finest jazz on wax to appear for many a weary month...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt occupying a box near the front' of the auditorium...
...Kahn's sixtieth year rounds-oat 40 years of activity in the-labor and socialist movement...
...All members are urged to attend to hear important committee reports...
...Here is a piece of music concocted of such colorless commonplaces that even the superb performance of Robert Casadesus cannot give it significance...
...its attack has an engaging spontaneity and enthusiasm...
...Kahn categorically refused to appear at any celebration...
...It looked funny to see Flynri, Wheeler, Lindy, Mrs...
...Lindy and Wheeler launched, Mrs...
...Several years ago he was one of the American delegates to the World Jewish Congress...
...President, because of your courageous and far-seeing leadership...
...June 27, "Race Prej-l&e," Members of other branches ce urged to come and see how I huge out-door forum can be efficiently and effectively conducted...
...Instead, it expresses that grandiose feebleness so characteristic of much contemporary American music...
...Cbenens will open promptly at S p. m. His topics are: June 6, ^-Wfense of Democracy Here ad Abroad...
...Some slight flurry was occasioned during Mrs...
...This affair marks the opening of a campaign on the East Side to send material as well as "moral support to the people of Britain in their heroic fight against Hitler...
...When Lindy sat down, the crowd'took up the refrain, "We* Want Wheeler...
...S.D.F...
...The audience seemed to know what it disliked...
...He has traveled to Europe several times to organize relief and aid for Jews...
...Yau will tike his new record of Lit'l Boy and I Want To Go Home (Columbia...
...Bensonhurst Branch meets Tuesday, June 3, 8:30 p. m., at G41G Bay Parkway...
...they are still hroonorous and pungent, dealing with the eternal verities of light opera...
...The Commodore Music Shops continue the policy of iss-jing the kind of hot jazz which is seldom heard on the release, of the large companies...
...PM's Jimmy- Wechsler who came in with his wife Nancy, was finally ushered to a seat in the third row of' the press section and seated next to my "favorite" hawker of Social Justice...
...The still cameras tell a better story...
...It is not great music, however, and often 'bogs down in the romanticism of its composer...
...Dr...
...I recommend The Beggar's Opera strongly: it is all that Gilbert and Sullivan, unstultified by Vic-torianism, might have been...
...I don't think it captures the spirit and power, often the tenderness, of Whitman's lines...
...Crowded in among his many other services to the labor movement have also been years -of membership on the Board of "Di-^* rectors of the New Leader...
...Sandoma plays it with a sympathetic understanding, not in the usual slamlbang manner which is reserved for concert war-horses...
...He was accompanied by Chief Big Elk of the Choctaws...
...Bound an 2)?dc By Ralph de Toledano Stokowski's new recording of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (Columbia, $5.50) should go a long way toward, silencing the pooh-poohing of those who believe its luster has worn...
...Tickets, at $1, are obtainable at Ch7 Office and at all branches...
...City Central Committee meets Wednesday, June 4, 8:30 p. m., at TEiafclSthSt...
...His voice grew louder and more angry as1 he-attacked Joe McWtl-liams sitting in the seventh row, stating that the War mongering sheets had taken enough pictures of him...
...The pledge to the flag was taken with arms outstretched in the Nazi salute...
...The huge commotion of the evening came when Flynn digressed from his prepared speech to shout that the America First Committee had no connection s with Bundists or fascists...
...I Hear America Singing ("Victor, $2.50...
...The All-American Youth Orchestra plays with its usual richness and clarity of tone,, especially in the woodwinds...
...MVV YORK CITY Vormtteers wanted for work to be done, sewing, etc., of garments for British war victims, ojnd your name to- the City Ofjee, 7 E. 15th St...
...This was the first time Thomas applauded...
...between Madison and'Fifth on the North side of the street...
...East Side Opens Aid British Labor Center The American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor is celebrating the opening of its East Side headquarters at 96 Avenue C on Saturday, June 7, 8:30 p. m. A gala program has been arranged with the showing of the British sound film, "Thumbs Up...
...Tha affair will be held in Irving Plaza, Thursday, June 19, 6 p. m. Arrangement Committee is composed of the S.D.F...
...Soon a jiop will be opened for this purpose in the basement of the gjnd'School, and workers will be needed...
...A swarthy pock marked fellow with jet black hair plastered down on top and ending- with ringlets on the side, appeared at the press table and explained that he was chief Marcellus High-Hawk (Capital H—Capital H he said) chief of the Seneca of Upper New York...
...The New England S.D.P...
...Labor, Jewish Leaders Hail Alexander KcAn on 60th Year Friends of Alexander Kahn— leading figures of the trade union and Jewish fraternal movements —this month are celebrating the sixtieth birthday of this veteran progressive leader who* is now General Manager of the Jewish Daily Forward...
...They said they were from the American Indian Institute and were against convoys...
...Yoiu can find him any day on 42nd St...
...j> Seated' on the platform wan Rev...
...Kahn was also instrumental in the founding of radio station'WEVD, and was one of the factors in its success...
...will oSl ifl an effective cooperation organize in several the American Labor Com-•itiee to-' Aid British Labor...
...When Walter K. Lewis tried to get a picture of him by pretending to take a shot of the press' section, Boian stood up angrily and said, "If you want to take a picture of me, here...
...When Robert Crawford, leading the singing, asked if they wanted to sing Irving Berlin's "God Bless America" the audience howled' htm down...
...Then turning and pointing t-o a middle-aged man sitting four seats away from him, he shouted, "They're to blame, they're the war mongers...
...Indians, incidentally, don't have to go to war and are exempt from conscription...
...at 10 a. m. Annual...
...Memo to the Editor: Mr...
...The Women's Com-gjttee of the S.D.F...
...Incidentally, chief intellectual rationalizer of faesism, Lawrence Dennis, sat-two rows in front of McWilliams...
...William Green and Matthew Woll of the American Federation of Labor are the heads of the American Labor Committee to Aid British Labor...
...By DANIEL BELL New Leader Staff Writer The press section was so filled with America First Committeemen that working press men had a hard time- finding seats...
...The future of the American way of life is safer today, Mr...
...Auspices, Morris Hillquit Branch...
...propaganda will begin in June in various parts of the city...
...Boat leaves Battery Park 9 a. m. md st'West 132nd St...
...Co-lu Tibia, $2.00,) The Beggar's Opera is one of the most happy-making sets I received this month...
...Bost Bide arranged by Worn-a<i Committee to Bear Mountain Park Saturday, June 21...
...Two new recordings of Saint-Saens My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice, by Marian Anderson (Vic-,tor, $1.00) and Bruna Castagna (Columbia, $1.00), put Madame Castagna in a very unfortunate light...
...Two new sides feature Joe Sullivan, Pee Wee Russell, and Zutty 'Sungleton: piano, clarinet, and drums, respectively...
...Paralleling the Communist stunt of Milwaukee Indians Peace Association, the America First produced- its own Red Men...
...But I hardly find this setting for some of Whitman's poems a major contribution to America's musical life—in spite of the fine reading it gets from John Charles Thomas, speaking: and singing, " and the IL/GWU chorus...
...The wave of patriotic sentiment is probably responsible for the emergence on records of Kleinsinger's cantata...
...is directing this work...
...and the Workmen's Circle, Branch 2. » * * All branches are urged to obtain street corner platforms, flags and banners at once...
...June 9, "Organized Labor and Defense1...
...Wheeler Came to Town for a Garden Rally These - are' notes of observe-' tions at the America First Garden rally...
...If the political satire misses us, there is no cause for complaint...
...A' message ftom William Cardinal O'ConneH, of Boston, ranking prelate of- the Catholic Church in the U. S., and ardent Anglophobe, tore down the house...
...The theme of the message, read by Flynn, was that those who "deny the possibility of peace, - deny intelligence and good-will:" — Yes, "good-will...
...But it is pleasant enough to listen to, the concise utterance of a dating musical attitude...
...You have united all Americans in the realization of our common danger...
...Plans will be made for Bensonhurst station for the American Labor "Committee to Aid British Labor...
...Contact City Office for speakers, literature, etc...
...The big battery of speakers trooped in with Norman Thomas leading the way...
...SDF News NATIONAL Locals of the Social Democratic Federation in varfm,* rfts of the country are becomng aflSKataH SSkan Labor Committee to Aid bShat Vth the ?3«of the Committee to-Def^,^1^.^ ^Affies...
...The performance cast, though not exceptional, does an adequate job...
...He was grabbed by a detective from the Alien Squad and led outside...
Vol. 24 • May 1941 • No. 22
