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...Dictator Chiang, is really in earnest now about hurling Chinese might against Japan, or may have to be kidnapped again. "If the Generalissimo leads the country to put up a strong resistance, the whole country will support him!" firmly replied General Yang, adding softly after a puff at his cigar: "If the Generalissimo does not put up a strong resistance-in that event I am not sure what would happen to our great leader...
...Manhattan's taxi-drivers and subway and bus employes. Its office workers are invading Wall Street. Here & there C.I.O. has lost minor collective bargaining elections to A. F. of L.. but the defections of A. F. of L. unions into C.I.O.'s ranks still continues. Even Cigar Makers International Union Local No. 144, the local of Samuel Gompers. longtime pillar of the A. F. of L., lately voted to throw in its lot with John Lewis. C.I.O. membership is now nearly as large as A. F. of L.'s (3,000,000 as against...
...just as artistic, in his eyes, as a marble nymph or a cast-iron deer. One of Dr. Shapera's neighbors happens to be Dr. Raymond Lee Ditmars, famed reptile man of the Bronx Zoo. Dr. Ditmars not only declared Iron Mike to be "as offensive as a cigar-store Indian and as emblematic as the three balls over a pawnbroker's shop," but criticized it as being zoologically inaccurate...
...GROVES, who through connection with various investment trusts is credited with control of United Cigar-Whelan Stores Corp., had a Bahama corporation and also controlled General Investment Corp. The Bahama company bought General Investment Corp. stock from the public, sold it to General Investment Corp. itself at a profit of $14.50 a share on the transaction. This deal is being looked into not only by the Bureau of Internal Revenue...
...minimum 40? wage and a five-day, 35-hour week, West Virginia's boyish Senator Rush Dew Holt (he turned 32 this week) asked: "If the Federal Government proceeds from this bill to legislation to regulate all wages and hours, what will happen to industrial democracy?" Grabbing the cigar from his mouth, Boss Lewis exploded, "Is the Senator trying to be humorous...