Word: brotherly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then the cabs started to roll. Denny Lewis, John L.'s little brother and boss of District 50, told the boys to hold fast, that U.M.W.'s $14 million treasury was behind them, but the strikers found out they couldn't get a dime for a cuppa cawfee...
Denny blamed most of his troubles on the mayor. In a pale lavender imitation of brother John's purple prose style, he called Mayor O'Dwyer a doublecrossing participant in "one of the most vicious strikebreaking cabals in the labor history of this great city." But the next day it was all over and Denny had left town. Bill O'Dwyer had the last word. Said he: "Denny Lewis came to town pretending he was half-horse and half-bear. Like every small-town bully, he was skull & bones, mostly skull. He came a month too soon...
William R. Polk '51, brother of the dead reporter is attending the trial in Salonika Greece...
Loyal at first only to his mother and his crippled brother (Arthur Kennedy), Midge gets his start in a fight-club preliminary. With a natural yen for money and bloodletting, he soon gets a professional manager (Paul Stewart) and starts dropping other middleweights like bulls in a stockyard. He also becomes adept at dropping his friends, usually with a kick in the teeth. In one way or another, he gets rid of his bride (whom he married at the point of a gun), his manager, a couple of girl friends, and even his brother...
William R. Polk '51 will witness tomorrow the opening of the Salonika trial for the murder of his brother, Columbia Broadcasting System correspondent George Polk, in Salonika last...