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...school of Socialist Eugene Debs but in that of the late, great Sam Gompers, who made the House of Labor one. From Gompers, Lewis learned the conservative tactics of straight trade unionism. In the early years in the Mine Workers he feared, hated and fought those "carrion birds," Socialists and Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Cat and Canary | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Since his labor-peace dove was discovered to be an old black carrion crow, John L. Lewis has scarcely raised his eyes from the pavement. But under his bushy eyebrows he has been toiling deviously away. Last week he corralled a handful of wandering dairy farmers and solemnly anointed them with membership in his United Mine Workers. He was gathering votes and manpower to recover his ascendancy in the C.I.O...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milk From Contented Workers | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...national emblems, the Harding-faced, carrion-rending bald eagle and the noble, hunchbacked bison are as familiar to Americans as Washington's profile or Lincoln's warts. Last week another great indigenous candidate for national beast got his first boost. He was the Texas Longhorn. His boosters were Texan Author James Frank Dobie and Texan Artist Tom Lea. How far their book could lift the Longhorn into the U. S. animal pantheon remained to be seen. But it was clear that he was eminently worthy of rescue from 50 years of near oblivion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: History with Horns | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Early American Carols and Folk Songs (John Jacob Niles, ballad singer; Victor: 8 sides; $3.50). Strumming a dulcimer, Kentuckian Niles croons ancient carols, rousing ditties like The Frog and the Mouse and The Carrion Crow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: December Records | 12/9/1940 | See Source »

...Dies has maneuvered himself into a one-man Supreme Court to judge what is and is not "American" under the Constitution. He has made "isms" almost as popular as sex-murders, and with the press caught by the scruff of its neck feeds it daily with red meat, mostly carrion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE HOBGOBLIN IS A MAN | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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