Word: eds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan publicity representatives of Paramount, who gave TIME its information on Actress Bradna, should get around to more cocktail parties.-ED...
...members since it convened in South Bend, Ind. a year ago, which is now the third biggest union in C. I. 0. (after United Mine Workers) was badly contorted by growing pains. The disagreement between cocky, young Homer Martin and his vice presidents, Wyndham Mortimer and Ed Hall, brewing ever since Martin blamed them for this summer's sporadic "unauthorized" General Motors sitdowns, had reached such a point that President Martin was determined to oust both. Although Homer Martin was unopposed for reelection, the Mortimer-Hall faction had been holding caucuses over the week-end to line...
...Ed McGrady's career as an honest, efficient two-fisted Washington labor lobbyist caused him to be boomed for Labor Secretary, but Franklin Roosevelt gave the job to his wife's good friend, Frances Perkins. When Postmaster General Farley recommended Ed McGrady as an assistant secretary, Madam Secretary Perkins decided she did not want him. She changed her mind after he, as an NRAdministrator, had settled the 1933 coal strike. Thereafter as her assistant he not only did all the Department's most important field work but got credit for being its ablest member...
...baldheaded, energetic Ed McGrady has had more concerns than Madam Perkins. One of them is cash. He started his union career as a pressman on the Boston Herald after he had once acted as a sparring partner for Terence "Terrible Terry" McGovern, and today although he looks 45, he is actually 20 years older. Forty-some years as an organizer and union leader brought him great prestige but little cash, and Ed McGrady felt that he owed it to his family to do better financially than the $9,000 he gets as second-string to Madam Perkins' fiddle. Last...
...where he is expected to start sometime after Labor Day, Ed McGrady will receive from $15,000 to $20,000 a year for smoothing over labor difficulties developing in RCA's three fields of radio: communications, broadcasting & manufac-luring. Year ago, RCA paid his friend General Hugh Johnson-who may have suggested the new arrangement to RCA's David Sarnoff-$40,000 to mediate a single strike in the Camden manufacturing plant. Best guess why Ed McGrady did not abruptly quit last week was that he wanted to let the President start the difficult job of picking...