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...Governor, Herbert Fleischacker, Traffic Chief Cato, newspaper editors and sheriffs and district attorneys and attorneys for big ranchers and some State and Federal conciliators and NRA chiefs. Enough money was collected for a typewriter and considerable over. Mr. Steffens was Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer of the Caroline Decker Typewriter Fund. If this be "leading," "agitating," "organizing," or "egging on" the workers, this he did for the little 21-year-old Union Secretary...
Pursuant of my unpromising experimental probing for humor in high places, I am going to ask you to contribute personally a dollar or so toward a fund to buy a typewriter for Caroline Decker, the tiny little labor agitator who is doing what no big A. F. of L. leader has ever dared undertake: to organize the migratory workers of the lovely orchards and vegetable ranches of California. You remember her? She is the so-called amazon who led the workers in their well-led strikes for a living wage in the valleys last year. She has to carry...
...Thomas Brookshire, D. D. was pronounced dead of a heart attack and no indications of drowning. The Rev. Brookshire is survived by his widow Catherine Main Brookshire and one son John Decker Brookshire...
...last Admirals' conference in British Eastern waters was 13 years ago. Host last week in Singapore harbor aboard his flagship cruiser Kent was a rare and racy Tipperary-blooded quarter decker, Admiral Sir Frederic Charles Dreyer. He was Flag Captain in the Battle of Jutland to Admiral Jellicoe of the Grand Fleet, today commands the China Station...
...Tragic Life-TIME, July 3; Passions Spin the Plot}. U. S. critics will be speaking of Idaho's Author Vardis Fisher in the same breath with Indiana's Theodore Dreiser. No less doggedly candid than Dreiser but a more artful writer, Author Fisher intends his four-decker novel to be an honest book. Because he has had a hard, unhappy life and because he writes only of what he knows, Vardis Fisher's books are not cheerful reading, have been called brutal, ruthless. Strong stomachs will find them tough meat but untainted. In Tragic Life brought...