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...there can be no doubt that the outright partisanship by General Johnson of the cause of the A. F. of L. in his speech to the assembled code authorities last week was a straw that broke, the camel's back. If the Government is to take the side of labor, and determine the method of dues paying and organization, industry is willing: but it wants the Government to supervise the labor unions for their financial affairs and every detail of the work now being done by the local organizers. In fact, Government control of labor unions may be the answer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Today in Washington By DAVID LAWRENCE | 3/20/1934 | See Source »

...battered by waves & rocks, pecked by gulls, decomposed by death. It was 25 ft. long, about 5 ft. around and its bluish-grey skin was covered with what seemed like fine white hairs. What was left of its head, hung on a 3-ft. neck, looked like a camel's. What was left of its tail looked like a seal's. It was disemboweled. Rolling gently in the surf, its liver stretched out a full...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANIMALS: Querqueville Thing | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...haired boy get along, he could not have wangled the presidency for Son Edward against the will of a directorate which includes Col. Albert Arnold Sprague (Sprague Warner & Co.), Edwin Augustus Potter Jr. (Guaranty Trust Co. of New York), Henry C. Olcott (Skelly Oil), James MacHenry Hopkins (Camel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Wilsons of Wilson | 3/12/1934 | See Source »

...Yale is a good college. Rudy Vallee went there, you know. And he is sure a swell fellow, even though he does have trouble with his wives." So says Pat Campbell (pronounced Camel), doorman of the British Empire Building at New York's Radio City. "I like Princeton too; who was it that went there? Oh yes, Woodrow Wilson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Vallee is a Swell Fellow Despite Trouble in Paradise," Says Jovial Radio City Doorman | 2/14/1934 | See Source »

...entering the movies, and now that "Jezebel" appears, Miriam Hopkins' also. For, although most who know her name would not recall it, Miss Hopkins has been in nine or ten New York hits before her career in celluloid started. Among these were "Lysistrata," "The Affairs of Anatol," "The Camel Through The Needle's Eye," and "John Ferguson." Unfortunately it cannot be said that either the Hopkins or the Hepburn reputation will be greatly increased by their present reappearances on the stage. In the first case, the fault lies mainly with the vehicle; with Katharine Hepburn one is inclined...

Author: By K. D. C., | Title: Cinema * THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER * Drama | 1/24/1934 | See Source »

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