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There was a small but powerful union already: the Foreman's Association of America, 14,000 strong, headed by florid, black-haired Robert Howard Keys, a 30-year-old ex-machinist, ex-assistant foreman at Ford's River Rouge. By last week Keys had a contract with Ford, was negotiating with Packard, had petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for a contract to become the foreman's exclusive bargaining agency in General Motors' Detroit Diesel Engine Division...
...Florid, white-thatched Chesley Webb Jurney has been a Washington character for 44 years, the Senate Sergeant at Arms for ten years. Sartorially immaculate, he paddles around the upper chamber, beams amiably at all. Amiability notwithstanding, Jurney was deep in trouble last week...
...exotic Palais d'Eté in Algiers he received correspondents individually and en masse. The Admiral was wearing sharkskin civvies with a white shirt, a brown polka-dot tie and black shoes. His grey-green eyes peered brightly through his horn-rimmed spectacles. Tiny veins threaded his florid cheeks. His grey hair was trimmed close. He sat behind a glass-topped work table in a dusky room hung with maps of Europe and Africa. Said...
Moreover the Leader-News's advertising linage went down 100,000 lines in 1942. Said white-haired, florid George Greene: "It's getting tough to get metal and repair parts too. Brother Greene will have to buckle down and go to work...
...florid, dumpy little Congressman from Minnesota could hold himself no longer. After he returned in October from four months' service in the Pacific as a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserve, Mel Maas had taken his observations on the Navy's "bungling" to Admiral King and Secretary Knox. Then he had gone to see President Roosevelt. He did not seem to get anywhere. Last week, in a radio speech that Navy officials tried to persuade him not to make, he told his story to the people...