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...Community of Christians of the Universal Brotherhood, as Western Canada's sect of Doukhobors call themselves, breathed easier last month when their leader, Peter Verigin II, was saved from deportation to Russia (TIME, Feb. 13). Locked up at immigration headquarters in Halifax, Leader Verigin admonished his followers to keep calm. "Do not follow the example of the foolish Sons of Freedom [fanatical inner Doukhobor sect], provocators who have been banished from the land [for going naked] and with whom we have nothing to do whatever. . . . Pay punctually all your taxes and obligations and conduct yourselves in an honorable...
Died, Corinne Roosevelt Robinson, 71, sister of the late President, mother of onetime (1924-29) Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Douglas Robinson, relict of Manhattan Realtor Douglas Robinson; of pleural pneumonia; in Manhattan. Poetess (The Call of Brotherhood, Out of Nymph), politician, in the 1932 campaign she supported local Republican candidates but not President Hoover because "my own beloved niece is the wife of the Democratic candidate...
Secretary of Labor Doak, with his estate "Notre Nid" (our nest) in Virginia, will stay on in Washington as lobbyist for the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen...
Last week the I. C. C., after weighing the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers' complaints about the treachery of hand reverse gears, ruled that by the end of 1936 all locomotives must be equipped with power reversers. Of the 55,000 locomotives in the land (of which 9,000 were in need of repair last week), half still have hand reverse gears. The I. C. C. order means that about $10,000,000 will be transferred out of the lean pockets of the railways into the lean pockets of the equipment companies...
...angry shout, the labor executives' committee and the railway executives adjourned from the smoky ballroom to Room No. 13. Conspicuously not present at the knee-to-knee parley was fatherly President Daniel ("Uncle Dan") Willard of the B. & 0. who, with amiable President David Brown Robertson of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen & Enginemen, patched together the existing wage arrangement. And although present, President Robertson was no longer the voice of railway labor. New leaders were General Manager William Francis Thiehoff of Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, onetime section laborer, and President Alexander Fell Whitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, onetime...