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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peace between the C. I. O. and the A. F. of L. flickered out last week. It died the day John L. Lewis assigned to his less shaggy, more gregarious Brother Denny the task of CIOrganizing 2,000,000 U. S. construction workers. This maneuver struck directly at the biggest and long-dominant craft blocs in the A. F. of L., marked Lewis' first major invasion of A. F. of L. territory, seemed timed to coincide with the Administration's scheduled autumn anti-trust drive into the building industry, which will incidentally thrust deeply into union racketeering...
...Biggest argument of Tory M.P. is that Great Britain's democracy is threatened by this concentration of family, political and economic power. More impressive than its argument, however, is its roll call of big British businessmen who are also members of Parliament. Examples...
...England has only one M.P.-Sir Alan Anderson-among its directors, but Sir Alan is also a director of railroads and ship lines that have other M.P.s on their directorates. Typical of Parliamentary financiers is Lieut. Colonel Glyn Keith Murray Mason, who is a director of the Midland Bank (biggest in England) and vice chairman of powerful Guardian Assurance Co., Ltd. When family backgrounds are considered, the financial power of Tory M.P.s looks towering. Lord Wimborne, a director of Barclays Bank until 1939 and once a Tory M.P. himself, has two brothers, a son, and a nephew on Conservative benches...
This year, with about 700 yearlings up for auction, turfmen expect some $2,000,000 to change hands. Largest group, as usual, will be those from the famed Claiborne and Ellerslie studs (59 this year), owned by Kentuckian Arthur B. Hancock, biggest commercial breeder in the U. S. Next largest group will be 44 put up by Willis Sharpe Kilmer, another famed breeder who, unlike Hancock, keeps some of his stock for racing under his own silks. A small string, however, that always commands attention are the dozen or so offered each year by the Belair Stud of Collington...
...millions of U. S. citizens who follow racing, racing's ancient purpose?Improvement of the Breed?is largely a gag. It is no gag to The Jockey Club's Chairman. It is a business as serious as building up the world's eleventh biggest bank, to which he has devoted two decades. The banking business has not been too good for anybody in the past few years. But for William Woodward the business of breeding and running horses has been fine...