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About 12 million U.S. workers have a stake in union welfare funds, totaling some $17 billion and theoretically set up to provide pensions, medical care and other benefits for members. Last week New York's State Insurance Department, making a fast public audit of a dozen-odd union funds at hearings in Manhattan, proved that some union officials are firm in the philosophy that benefits should begin with the guardians of the funds. Samples...
Forward, the Veep. Everything was ready for the show except the stars. The 1,230 Democratic votes are distributed ineffectively among half a dozen front runners and a dozen-odd favorite sons. Said Commerce Secretary Charles Sawyer in a classic summation: "The situation is confused or fluid, whichever way you want to look at it." Said a more candid White House staffer: "Hell, we've got plenty of candidates. What we need real bad is a candidate who can beat Eisenhower...
Pole Vault. Democratic politicos know Harriman can never hope to rival Estes Kefauver as a handshaker and winner of popularity contests. Instead, they have mapped a speaking tour through a dozen-odd cities from Boston to San Francisco just so delegates and the professional pols can get to know Harriman. If Adlai Stevenson definitely bows out and Harry Truman gives the nod, Harriman might possibly vault into the nomination on the strength of boss-controlled votes-without having entered a single primary...
This story stabs into Spitzen-on-the-Dein and its people at various times during world wars and an American occupation. The U. S. military government is administered by a venereal-diseased motorcyclist named Leevey. The book's narrator--who only narrates for a dozen-odd pages throughout--eventually kills Leevey, overthrows the occupation, and founds a new Germany...
...Kingfish" is big (6 ft., 200 lbs.), shy, pink-cheeked Ernest Lynn Kurth, 64, a jack of all trades-lumber, insurance, banking, theaters, construction, utilities, machinery-and master of all as well. Kurth's dozen-odd enterprises employ 3,250, indirectly support 50% of Lufkin's population. But the Kurth achievement that most East Texans boast about, and the one that is of prime importance to the Southern economy, is newsprint. Set up only nine years ago as the South's first newsprint producer, Kurth's $18 million Southland Paper Mills, Inc. last week was rolling...