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...last week in Manhattan William Aloysius Galvin, 27, founder-president of the Inside Bakery Workers Federal Labor Union No. 19585, uprose to present his case to the startled Uneeda stockholders. In a thoroughly dignified manner, he asked them to consider the loss of business and good will the strike was causing. The whole affair was unfortunate, he declared, because neither the strikers nor the owners wanted the company to suffer...
...behalf of the A. F. of L. teamsters', chauffeurs' and stablemen's union, last week hoary President Daniel J. Tobin presented James Aloysius Farley with a check for $1,000 to be used by the Democratic Party "as a mark of appreciation of what the Roosevelt Administration has accomplished for Labor." Labor's gift to the Democratic Party came at an odd time, for Mr. Tobin's boss, William Green, and Mr. Farley's boss, Franklin Roosevelt, had come politely but perilously near the parting of the ways...
...members of the Norfolk (Va.) Philatelic Society met, last fortnight, in a blaze of indignation. Beneath their very noses a local dealer was flaunting a sheet of 200 Mother's Day stamps, unperforated, ungummed, and autographed by James Aloysius Farley. Rumor was that the dealer had insured his $6 worth of stamps for $20,000. The philatelists drafted a hot letter accusing the Postmaster General of slipping his friends sheets of unperforated commemorative stamps which promptly "assumed speculative value 10,000 times greater than their original value." Then they dispatched the letter to a famed fellow stamp-collector...
Chief James Aloysius Farley, generalissimo of politics and potent Elk, rushed once more into the fray and won for the Man of the Year the battle...
Cudahy. "Not since the company purchased its first carload of live stock over 47 years ago," declared Chairman Edward Aloysius Cudahy Sr., "has it been confronted with so many entirely new problems as during the past year. The processing tax on the live weight of hogs slaughtered . . . has cost us between nine and ten million dollars for the year. This in part was our contribution to the $101,945,334 which the AAA recently stated was paid to Corn-Hog Farmers up to Oct. 1. In view of the close association of our industry with agriculture ... it is especially gratifying...