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...comic Hercules of the evening is Bert Lahr, who performs six mighty comic labors in six parts. His funniest role: a senile ice-cream tycoon whose favorite political flavor is Birch. Lahr creases his wrinkles, crosses his eyes, and shows all of his time-honored wizardry with the japes and antics of burlesque...
...tried to close down a nonunion mine in Hazard, state troopers were armed with submachine guns. The United Mine Workers disowned the roving pickets, urged everybody to calm down. That was like pleading with a rattlesnake to uncoil. The violence sim ply increased, and Kentucky's Democratic Governor Bert Combs admitted that a "dangerous situation" existed. It was likely to get worse before it got better...
...printers stoutly defended every penny of their demands-which added up to $38.32 more a week, spread over the next two years. But as broken down by management, the I.T.U. package suggested exorbitance. Among other things, Bert Powers' printers are asking $3.25 per week in extra pension and welfare contributions, $19 more in pay for a shorter week. The union has also flatly refused to yield its time-dishonored right to set bogus type, a featherbedding practice that involves hand-composing, and then throwing away unused, all advertisements received in mat form. With appropriate contempt, the publishers call this...
...only fair to state." said Amory Bradford. New York Times vice president and the Publishers Association's chief negotiator, "that the reputations of the I.T.U. and Local 6 for fair dealing have been shattered. We await any move you desire to make." Retorted the I.T.U.'s Bert Powers: "We are prepared to hold out indefinitely...
...payments from a Detroit trucking concern. According to the indictment, Detroit's Commercial Carriers, Inc. in 1949 set up a Tennessee firm named Test Fleet. The new outfit leased trucks to Commercial Carriers. All the Test Fleet stock was transferred to Mrs. Hoffa and the wife of Owen ("Bert") Brennan, a Teamster vice president who died in 1961; the two women discreetly used their maiden names of Josephine Poszywak and Alice Johnson...