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...Joan of Arc was a Dallas housewife named Mrs. Bobbie Woodward. Mrs. Woodward, 24, and mother of two, was no Ingrid Bergman. But she had a nice pair of legs and a stubborn spirit. She saw no reason why she should hide her legs under long skirts, why her draftsman husband should be put to the expense of buying her a new wardrobe, or why the women of Texas should be pushed around by a bunch of Paris and New York designers...
Concluded Chief Draftsman Taft: "The Committees of Congress . . . have tried to restore equality in collective bargaining and correct only those abuses . . . which were clearly shown to exist...
...protect the stomachs of modern readers, Todd reproduces only details of Fuseli's more obscene drawings, made for private consumption. The elaborately coiffeured heads of his procuresses and whores, haggling and tempting, and Fuseli's needle-sharp "domestic" caricatures show him to have been a better draftsman than painter...
...running the empire belongs to Holman, plus the eleven-man board of directors, most of whom came up as Holman did, stratum by stratum. The board chairman is Frank W. Abrams, 57, who started in Standard as a draftsman, came up the refining side. The executive committee of the board meets every day with Holman. It is the gusher which produces the policy on Standard's worldwide problems. It is Holman who refines the policy and distributes it. Actually, most of the day-by-day problems are sensibly solved by subsidiaries on the scene. This is partly...
Thus equipped, President Emory Burke, 31-year-old Atlanta draftsman and high-school graduate, began drumming up recruits. Secretary Homer L. Loomis Jr., 32, was an avid assistant. A war veteran and socialite son of a wealthy New York lawyer ("where I learned to hate Jews and Negroes"), Loomis moved to Atlanta last winter with the intention of "starting something." Although the loose-mouthed rantings of Yankee Loomis were hotly denounced by civic-minded Atlantans, he was quickly able to find a following. His formula: "We tell the people what they want to hear. We excite them. Then we organize...