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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woman, one of 500 sweltering delegates who met one evening last week in San Francisco's musty old Labor Temple. They had met before 8 p. m. They did not adjourn until 5:25 next morning. Their business was indeed important: Harry Bridges, the lean little Australian-born leader of San Francisco's 4,000 International Longshoremen-the John L. Lewis of the West-was trying to snitch the San Francisco Labor Council clean away from the A. F. of L. Under William Green's orders the Central Labor Councils of Seattle and Portland had expelled...
...German-born Boston milk-dealer, Archibald Robertson Graustein whisked through Harvard Law School by the age of 21; at 25 was partner in the Boston law firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins, at 39 was president of International Paper Co., world's largest paper maker. Last year Mr. Graustein and International Paper parted company (TIME, Feb. 17, 1936), and Mr. Graustein began 'practicing corporate law in Manhattan. Last week, at 51, he was appointed special counsel in charge of corporate reorganization for the U. S. Maritime Commission, now busy in Washington on the vast job of subsidizing...
...presidents simply by ratifying the choice of a nominating committee. Two months ago Unitarians embarked on a lively row, out of which loomed the probability that the annual meeting would have to choose between two candidates for president. The committee's nominee was Dr. Frederick May Eliot, Boston-born pastor for the past 20 years of Unity Church in St. Paul, Minn., chairman of an appraisal commission which worked for two years on a 348-page report detailing the ills of organized Unitarianism. That report irked the vice president of the Association, Dr. Charles Rhind Joy, for among other...
...Yaleman born' (in New Haven, 1871) and bred (graduated 1895), he married a New Haven girl, got his first job as editor of the New Haven Morning News. From there he went to the New York Evening Post, then joined the staff of McClure's (with Lincoln Steffens, Ida Tarbell) at the height of its brilliance. After eight years of reformist muckraking. Hendrick's journalistic training was nicely balanced by 14 on the late, colorless World's Work. For the last ten years, bespectacled, stately-domed Author Hendrick has devoted himself to writing books. Others: Life...
...only talking to her faithful dog, being too shy to say it to anyone else, but she means it. Rosamund has suffered so much that she has been able to say a great deal, and has become a bestseller. Her shyness arises from the fact that she was born with a nevus (strawberry-mark) all over her left cheek, and at 35 she is a recluse. Except for her blemish she is much better looking and more intelligent than her two older sisters, who have both married, though they are nasty creatures. They hate Rosamund for her success, are always...