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Gain or Obstacle? Labor's first reaction was mostly favorable. Said President Aaron Mosher of the Canadian Congress of Labor: "A good equivalent of the union shop." Elroy Robson, President of the C.C.L. Toronto Labor Congress, said the ruling was "worthy of the wisdom of a Solomon...
Another contributor was Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch of Wausau, Wis., who took third place in the broad jump, then drove 160 miles to Bloomington, Ind., to pitch Michigan's nine to its sixth successive Big Ten triumph...
...Michigan had over a dozen former Wisconsin lettermen on its squad and a dream backfield of potential all-Americas: Wisconsin's Elroy ("Crazy Legs") Hirsch and Jack Wink, Minnesota's star fullback Bill Daley, Michigan's own Paul White...
There are other, more human reasons for the merger. Having bossed Otis for 17 years, Elroy John Kulas, 61, probably wants to retire to a life of philanthropy (college endowments), music, gardening and good living at his sumptuous country estate outside Cleveland. J. & L.'s chief is tough, Wales-born Horace Edgar Lewis, 59, who has no thought of quitting. An out & out steelman who came up from the mills, Lewis got to be total boss (president and chairman) only four years ago, has ambitions about chasing J. & L.'s competitors, U.S. Steel, Bethlehem and Republic...
Loudest protest against the price-freezing order came from Elroy J. Kulas of Otis Steel, who said the labor upping would cost his company $1,200,000, almost twice its last year's $717,000 profit. But even pro-steel sources pointed out that more than half of the wage increase, for the industry as a whole, will come out of the Government's pocket rather than out of the steel mills'. Reason: the corporation and excess-profits taxes which now take 62% of all earnings of $500,000 or more over the base exemption (and will...