Word: edmundson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time John L. found his authority challenged by one Ray Edmundson, 42, of Springfield, Ill. For nine years husky Ray Edmundson had been the Lewis-appointed president of U.M.W.'s tough, bloody Illinois district, at $8,000 a year. Five months ago he threw up this sinecure, went back to the mines, and began fighting John L. on the issue of union autonomy, i.e., the right of districts to elect their own officers. (Of U.M.W.'s 31 districts, 21 are ruled by Lewis-appointed men, giving John L. near-perfect dictatorial control...
When our task force blasted Marcus Island only 1,250 miles from Tokyo three weeks before, Charles Edmundson was on the job for you there...
...battle for Munda entered its second month. To the U.S. public, the campaign seemed desperately slow. General Douglas MacArthur, its director, said that it was progressing satisfactorily. Both were right, as Charles Edmundson, Associate Editor of FORTUNE, discovered at first hand last week...
...Neurotics. "Sleeping in foxholes, sometimes half-filled from rain, is rigidly prescribed in better-disciplined regiments," cabled Edmundson. "If you have never spent twelve hours of darkness lying in a foxhole near Jap lines, with their snipers in your own perimeter sending occasional zinging shots in your direction, you cannot make proper allowance for men sometimes seized by jungle neurosis who begin wielding their machetes wildly or tossing grenades promiscuously across the area. In the tenseness of the long jungle nights, every sound and circumstance takes on the aspect of terror. Exhausted soldiers are forbidden to snore lest they attract...
Observers, long expecting this move, saw its beginning last week in Illinois, where three Lewis sub-chieftains suddenly withdrew from the State's federation of C.I.O. unions. One of them was Ray Edmundson, C.I.O. regional director, who declared: "Hereafter I shall devote every ounce of energy at my command [to] . . . Lewis, whom I consider one of the greatest labor leaders of all time...