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King, Judge, Dukes. In 1860 a For-Lincoln-Before-Chicago man was James McManes, an Irish Presbyterian immigrant who politicked his way from cotton-mill bobbin-boy to the top of Philadelphia's "Gas Trust." In 1865 "King" McManes formed Philadelphia's habit of burying the Democratic Party. The political pattern in Pennsylvania was for 70 years after: 1) that old families, business and the Republican ticket were respectable, Democrats and reformers were not; 2) that Republicans were regarded as the guardians of the protective tariff and thus of the American way of life; 3) that Pennsylvania should...
...rose to report on cigaret paper's newest move, to the broad Davidson River plain in the timber-clad Toxaway mountains 30 miles southwest of Asheville. N. C. There, on the day Britain and France declared war on Nazi Germany, his Ecusta Paper Corp. turned out its first bobbin of cigaret paper. There the 17-building plant of Ecusta today runs 24 hours a day, employs 900 workmen, turns out some 50% of U. S.-made cigaret paper...
...Charles Whitefield Welch of Louisville, Ky., the Southerner who will head the Northern Presbyterians for the next year, is slight, sandy-haired, 60, and probably the only man who ever combined the two jobs of Presbyterian Moderator and railway brakeman. Once a bobbin boy in a Kentucky mill, he earned money for his education by working on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, still keeps his union card by making two runs a year, in uniform, from Louisville to Bowling Green. Theologically a moderate, Moderator Welch has been pastor of Louisville's Fourth Avenue Presbyterian Church since...
...Author, in company with many a left-wing litterateur, has taken a modern highroad to Parnassus. He comes honestly by his industrial subject. After serving in the War with an ambulance corps, later in the French artillery, he worked nine months in a Canadian mill town, then as a bobbin-boy in a New Bedford, Mass. mill. When he sold his first short story he took up writing as a profession. After two years of free-lancing in Europe he reported the New Bedford mill strike (1928) for the Communist New Masses, next year covered the murder trial...
Power's script,?wound, bobbin-bound, refined?...