Word: faces
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mediation Board made one last effort-an appeal to the steelmen to talk to John L. Lewis face to face-but was rebuffed. Then, citing pressing personal duties, the members of the board prepared to disperse. S.W.O.C.'s Philip Murray now suggested that the dispute be turned over to President Roosevelt for personal arbitration. The incongruity of this was that the President of the U. S. had disqualified himself as an impartial judge by declaring for the C.I.O. position last fortnight...
...never made any such unwarranted and high-handed proposal," cried Miss Perkins, maintaining that she merely urged the Government to use the power of subpoena to bring about a face-to-face conference...
...reputation rather than by real achievement. . . . One wonders what the effect would be on those bright young boys in the senior class at Mammoth if they fully understood the significance of the Commencement scene this month, as they watch their alma mater shoveling out honorary degrees to the face-cards of business and professional life...
...appeared to be satisfied. Nor were there any degrees in prospect last week for the New York Times's commencement-speaking Editor John Huston Finley (30), Harvard's President-Emeritus Abbott Lawrence Lowell (28), Herbert Hoover (27). In their stead 1937 had produced many a new public face...
Another new face was that of Pilot Henry T. ("Dick") Merrill, whose second two-way transatlantic flight earned him a Doctor of Aeronautical Science at Pennsylvania Military College (Chester). Prettiest new face was that of blonde Mary Lewis, a crack adwoman whose copy ("Buy American Cotton") for Manhattan's Best & Co. was so good that she became its vice president at 32. Not a college graduate, Miss Lewis got her L.H.M. from Russell Sage. A modest newcomer was President Roosevelt's long-time Personal Secretary Marguerite ("Missy") Le Hand, who was invested with an LL.D. by Roman Catholic...