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...much for God and not enough for man"; he believed: "To add brightness to the sun or glory to the name of God are alike impossible." Walter Reuther's pattern of life was molded by his father, Jacob's son Valentine, a union organizer and an ardent Socialist. Walter retains a vivid boyhood memory of going to Moundsville Penitentiary with his father to visit Socialist Eugene Debs, sentenced to ten years under the Espionage...
...list carefully weighed and balanced to avoid any unwonted partisanship, ardent Laborites, faithful aides of Prime Ministers Churchill and Eden (including five members of Churchill's secretariat), and deserving politicians in the dominions beyond the seas were all duly remembered by Her Majesty. Only Roger Bannister's name really caught the public fancy in a list largely devoted to bureaucrats rewarded and diplomats given titles appropriate to their jobs...
...clad in the best, and whisk off 50 miles to London in his master's Jaguar to flash ?5 notes in the eyes of a bevy of girl friends. By the time his master married, Patience himself was already paying alimony to one exwife, supporting another and paying ardent court to a prospective third. Where, wondered the local police, who kept a closer eye on Butler Patience than his master did, was he getting the money to spend? Lawyers and Legacies. Last December, as Captain Thornhill, lord of the manor of Diddington, lay dying of a stroke, the police...
Died. Judge Harold M. Stephens, 69, chief justice of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia; of cancer; in Washington. An early and ardent New Dealer, Stephens served with distinction during the early years of the Roosevelt Administration as assistant attorney general in charge of antitrust matters, was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 1935, later lost some of his New Deal support (and probably a Supreme Court appointment) by lining up against the Government in the 1938 decision forbidding the National Bituminous Coal Commission to fix the price of coal...
When President Eisenhower approved a boost of up to 50% in tariffs on Swiss watches last summer, he gave a reason that even the most ardent low-tariff men found hard to attack. The Office of Defense Mobilization, said Ike, had found from an interdepartmental report that "preservation of the unique skills of this industry [in the U.S.] is essential to the national security." Last week, after months of prodding by U.S. watch importers, the Defense Department released a report of its own that took a position quite different from that...