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...Corporation by corporation John L. Lewis' organizing drive captured positions in these two great open-shop industries. By last week it had gained about two-thirds of Motors, better than half of Steel. Last week the United Automobile Workers were storming at the gates of Motors' inner citadel, Ford Motor Co. The Steel Work ers Organizing Committee, having cap tured biggest U. S. Steel and most of the small fry, was pounding at the defense of three big steel independents: Republic, Youngstown, Inland. On both fronts there was blood and brutality. On one there was Death...
...made oldtime G. O. P. bosses successful, says Charley Michelson, was "ignoring the mutterings of the Liberal group of Republicans." The same principle, he thinks, will work in the future. Only chance for a Republican comeback is to stop straddling the liberal-conservative fence, return to the "rock-ribbed citadel of oldtime, fundamental conservatism." That is why Alf Landon and John Hamilton, both tainted with Western progressivism, should be tossed overboard. The Republican National Chairman should be an emotional as well as physical resident of Manhattan, should "sit at the feet of the magnates, political and financial, and saturate himself...
...January sixth. There the regents and the president will be granted equal opportunity to present their views, along with the alumni, and there the case should be decided on merits alone. In the meanwhile, be assured that no one, particularly Governor LaFollette, seeks to storm and take the citadel of academic freedom at Wisconsin. James F. Stern...
...locality the Gideons never penetrated is the citadel of the U. S. Bible trade: Manhattan. There the New York Bible Society supplies free Holy Writ to the hotels and there flourishes the largest Bible publishing house in the Western Hemisphere, the American Bible Society. The latter organization, 120 years old, last week passed another milestone by dedicating a new $500,000 home, a six-story stone building at Park Avenue and 57th Street, remodeled and air-conditioned. Since 1853 the American Bible Society's Bible House had been a landmark in fusty, downtown Astor Place. From...
...consumers can be persuaded to pay higher prices for the metal. For once the nation's steelmen are not adverse to a general pay increase because that action might undercut the efforts of John Llewellyn Lewis and his Committee for Industrial Organization which is out to unionize the citadel of the open shop...