Word: durkin
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GENERAL SKERMAN'S SON (276 pp.)-Joseph T. Durkin, SJ.-Farrar, Sfraus & Cudahy...
...People in Love." How the son of General Sherman, a nondenominational Protestant who believed in "truth," came to be a Jesuit spellbinder is told in this fascinating biography by Joseph T. Durkin, himself a Jesuit and professor of American history at Georgetown University. Tom Sherman, born in 1856, was brought up in St. Louis and Washington amid his father's legend, but his Catholic mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman, probably had the greater influence. Tom went to Yale, studied law at St. Louis' Washington University, then abruptly informed his father that he was about to enter the Jesuit novitiate...
...Only three other members of the remarkably stable original Eisenhower Cabinet have left: Labor Secretary Martin Durkin, Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby, and Interior Secretary Douglas McKay...
...last October for their part in Scranton's classic example of union violence, after a campaign touched off by the city's newspapers, were Carpenters' Business Agent Bartell, Electrical Workers' Business Agent Brady, Laborers' Business Agent Anthony Bonacuse, and Teamsters' Secretary-Treasurer John Durkin, who is also a vice president of the Pennsylvania Federation of Labor. Yet all still hold their union jobs-a fact that places a real burden of proof on the national A.F.L.-C.I.O. Executive Council in its war against labor racketeering...
James Paul Mitchell, 56, Secretary of Labor, took over in October 1953, when Union Leader Martin Durkin resigned in a dispute about Taft-Hartley law changes. Mitchell turned out to be the biggest sur prise in the Cabinet and is now rated its fastest comer. Despite 20 years as a labor-relations expert with the WPA, the War Department and New York department stores, he had neither a name on the national labor scene nor a reputation for political astuteness when Ike brought him over from the Pentagon (Assistant Secretary of Army for Manpower and Reserve Forces' Affairs). Since...