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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President looked a little 11tired after the Shriners' convention in Chicago. He said he would like to get his hands on the guy who had kept him awake one whole night singing Chloe. But he had a greater annoyance. The current scandal over war-contract procurement and the "five-percenters" (private agents who charge a 5% fee for obtaining contracts) was still hovering darkly over his good friend and military aide, Major General Harry Vaughan...
Finally, three weeks ago, Lawyer Campanella drew up a contract to let Siqueiros do the job. The painter took one look at its provisions, pronounced them insulting, shoved Campanella and his brother down a flight of stairs...
...banned the Maestro from the premises, they offered their resignations. In Mexico City, Siqueiros roared that Campanella was a "gangster" whose "frauds . . . are now a criminal matter." Diego Rivera and 40-odd other topflight Mexican painters got off a fire-breathing manifesto charging Campanella with breach of contract, and declared a boycott against the school...
...Five days before, Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching had stalked out of a negotiating session, throwing up his hands in despair. Actually the mediation meeting had lasted only 2½ hours. Phil Murray, out for big game, refused to budge from his insistence on discussing pension demands (although, under the contract, he was only entitled to open wage and insurance negotiations this year). Profit-fat steelmen* as stubbornly dragged their feet on wages as long as the union wanted to talk pensions, too. At that deadlocked point, Murray looked hopefully to the White House...
Married. Robert Richard Chappuis, 26, All America (Michigan '47) passing ace, now under contract to the Chicago Hornets; and Ann Gestie, 21, his campus sweetheart; in Fargo...