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This rousing mandate opened a new destiny for John Lewis. Thus solidly backed by his own men, he was sure to make a desperate fight for industrial unionism on the floor of the Federation's Tampa convention this autumn. If he wins, John Lewis will be a figure to be reckoned with in U. S. Industry. If he loses, he is likely to pull his eight allied unions out of the A. F. of L., historically rend U. S. Labor...
...national life will be made evident, the assembling of distinguished scholars from many countries will demonstrate the international character of scholarship and "commemorate the extension" to this continent of the ancient world" of learning"--a message we are prone to forget. For a month or more next Autumn Harvard University itself will be "on view" to the general public, affording opportunity to all who are interested to become better acquainted with our first American college, which has grown into a university that has been authoritatively rated as "pre-eminent'--a place of distinction which it is accorded not alone...
...have already set in motion the long, deliberate machinery by which the Roman Catholic Church canonizes saints. So insistent were pious Belgians, so sure that the presence of Father Damien's dust in a proper shrine might work wonders, that King Leopold III personally wrote President Roosevelt last autumn, secured the U. S. Government's help in taking Father Damien back to his native land...
...concentrated as the flat glass division, although a half dozen companies account for about 80% of the business. In 1935 the U. S. used some 5,300,000,000 bottles compared to about 10,000,000,000 cans. Biggest bottle company is Toledo's Owens-Illinois which last autumn made itself even bigger by acquiring Libbey Glass Manufacturing Co., a tumbler-maker not to be confused with Libbey-Owens-Ford. Owens-Illinois makes some two-thirds of all U. S. beer bottles, is therefore the bottle company most annoyed at canned beer. But Owens-Illinois' President William Edward...
Just before sailing for Europe last autumn he got an order for six dozen sets of Politics from Manhattan's F. A. O. Schwarz (toy store), had to call upon guests to help sort thousands of colored pins on his apartment floor. Last week with Politics having advanced from the handicraft stage to the hands of Parker Brothers, Inventor Lord claimed that sales were running above 500 sets per day in stores throughout the land...