Word: circuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Appointed a fact-finding board to study the U.A.W. strike against General Motors. The appointees: North Carolina Supreme Court Judge Walter P. Tracy, WLB Chairman Lloyd K. Garrison, Kansas State College President Milton Eisenhower (younger brother of General Ike). ¶ Appointed a six-man delegation, headed by Circuit Court Judge Joseph C. Hutcheson, of Houston, to an Anglo-American committee which will investigate the Arab-Jewish deadlock in Palestine. ¶ Paid a pre-Christmas visit to wounded veterans in the Bethesda Naval Hospital and the Army's Walter Reed Hospital. ¶ Put balding, affable Wilson Wyatt, ex-Mayor...
...gang of U.S. professional tennis players, which has been discombobulated for years, and for years has talked about getting itself organized, last week did something about it. Lieut. Don Budge, with the well-organized pro golf circuit as his model, buttonholed fellow pros in Los Angeles, and sold them a postwar plan: a pro tennis association, with salaried president and press agent, plans for 20 cash-prize tourneys next year...
Last week Iconoclast Johnson, now 70, retired. His successor-"a man after my own heart"-is another farm boy: lean, 49-year-old Brynjolf Jacob (Bryn J. for short) Hovde (rhymes with loved a). Bryn J. has, among other things, toured ,the Chautauqua lecture circuit, taught at the University of Pittsburgh-where he got into more than one ruckus because his politics were to the left of the trustees' -and run the State Department's Division of Cultural Cooperation. Says he: "I like to think of a university as a storm center. I like people to take...
Some manufacturers, concluding that they would have to build new plants in Britain, prepared to do so. Wheat and lumber were shipped only to tightly budgeted Government buyers. And then Canadian exporters began meeting similar" restrictions in India, Egypt, Australia, other countries in the British-money (sterling) circuit...
Labor leaders, who have been loudly charging many a company with double bookkeeping to hide profits, were jolted last week. Chicago's Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that unionists may be sued for libel for such statements. The decision grew out of a squabble between Pullman-Standard Car Manufacturing Co. and a C.I.O. Steelworkers' local. Back in 1943, Pullman had stated in a newspaper ad that its profits, after all expenses, were only 1.81 of a cent on the dollar...