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...perennial price wars with Bloomingdale's and Gimbel's, Towelman Williams declared: "No sane manufacturer likes to have his merchandise used as a football and crowd-getter. Nor does he enjoy the disorderly competition brought about by two and sometimes more stores in a town starting a feud and vowing they will not be undersold. It always seemed to me that is one way to go nowhere fast." Not price-cutting but price-raising disturbed Jay D. Runkle of Marshall Field's New York Office. In prices the merchant's interest is close to that...
Even Labor, split by the feud between the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization, was not unanimously represented at the conference. With A. F. of L.'s President William Green leading the Council's Labor section, C. I. O. Chairman John L. Lewis announced himself out-of-town, resting. But some 900 representatives of Labor and small business turned up, sat down for a two-day talkfest about Government regulation of Business...
Died. Michael J. ("Mike") Galvin, boss of Chicago's Truckdrivers, Chauffeurs & Helpers Union, oldtime labor lieutenant of the Teamsters' Boss Cornelius ("Con") Shea; of wounds inflicted by 29 slugs fired from shotguns by passing gunmen; in Chicago. In a 30-year feud between the Galvin "outlaw" union and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, affiliated with the American Federation of Labor, assassins have shot down Bosses George ("Red") Barker, William ("Three-Fingered Jack") White and Paddy Berrell...
...very beginning it receives the verbal sanction of one William Shakespeare who assures us that the entire production is under his personal supervision. Before very long Shylock, bursting in upon Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is required to account for his presence in "Hamlet". Later there is depicted a feud in the best Montague-Capulet fashion, between John Gielgud and Leslie Howard, each of whom gives Beatrile Lillie a front seat ticket for the other's performance, each knowing that the performance will prove only a minor side-show to that amiable woman's extraordinary volubility. But Mr. Shakespeare is soon retired...
...Turney's studiously poetic dialog lacks the full-blooded majesty and thunder that would have enabled it to prevail against the magnificent settings of Jo Mielziner. And Actresses Mendelssohn and Roos, playing their parts like transplanted Lady Macbeths, reduce the play to the proportions of a family feud among the Borgias...