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Some exhibitors, who see their profits shrinking, think differently. Said Abram Myers, chairman of the Allied States Assn. of Motion Picture Exhibitors: "If film rentals rise, admission prices will have to be increased; and thus the motion-picture industry will be handicapped in its race with competing amusements . . ." In Manhattan, some exhibitors are threatening to boycott Fox films. Even Fox's own Joe Schenck-now that he is to be only an exhibitor-may find himself on the other side of the bargaining fence...
Teachers scheduled to speak tonight are William H. Burton, lecturer on the Principles of Teaching; Abram Collier, member of the Wellesley School Board; Clifford McAvoy, educational director of the United Electrical Workers; and Alan B. Overstreet, lecturer on Government...
...attack was not to be taken as a purge, he said. It was simply in the interests of good trade unionism. He pointed an accusing finger at three unions which he said were falling down on the job of organizing the unorganized. They were Durkin's (office workers), Abram Flaxer's (federal workers), both left wing, and Samuel Wolchok's unruly department-store workers' union. Murray's denunciation was taken as a demand that the three union presidents resign. Said a surprised Wolchok, who has bitterly fought the Communists but has been unable to control...
Columbia University Psychiatrist Abram Kardiner attacked what he called Kinsey's plea for tolerance toward perversion. Moral laws that separate men from the other animals are not "historical happenstance"; they grew, he said, out of necessity for control...
...anti-Communist tide was rising in other unions. At a convention of Abram Flaxer's red-rimmed United Public Workers, a group of delegates claiming to represent 10,000 federal, state and municipal employees declared themselves "fed up with the leftwing, anti-C.I.O. policies" of Flaxer and bolted the union...