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Dates: during 1930-1939
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One day last week Columnist Westbrook Pegler, fresh from his investigations of California Ham & Eggery, visited the office of State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney in Chicago. What he found in the records there made meat for two columns about meaty William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, the boss of A...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweet Willie | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

Last week David Dubinsky made it clear that he was not joining in the hue & cry for C. I. O.-A. F. of L. reconciliation, felt that he had been too optimistic about it before,wanted the I. L. G. W. U.'s action to speak louder than words...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The Big Split | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

What made this retort timely was that Willie Bioff had just tied Hollywood producers into knots. On behalf of 1,900* A. F. of L. studio workers, Tsar Bioff had ordered the companies to up wages 10% ($360,000 a year). Likely to be demanded later if he got this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Sweet Willie | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

At Father's death, Kermit Roosevelt carried on the family tradition, but the old whoop and holler was gone. Banking in Buenos Aires, war service with the British and U. S. Armies (he served with the British in Mesopotamia, commanded an artillery battery in the U. S. Army), shipping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Father's Son | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

John Metoyer, an olive-brown pixie who founded the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club in a woodshed 30 years ago, had never been King of the Zulus. He hardly cared. As daily host to the Zulus at his cafe (now called the Brown Bomber) on Perdido Street, he was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: Coconuts | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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