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...cries kept on, and many a Republican politician joined in. North Dakota's Senator Milton R. Young, a professional Benson foe, got new headlines by demanding the Secretary's resignation. One of the few members of Congress to come to Benson's defense was Vermont's George Aiken, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, who said Benson was the victim of a "vicious smear campaign...
...powerful A.F.L. United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners (present membership, 822,000) ; of a heart ailment; in Indianapolis. Starting as a 20?-an-hour carpenter in Midland, Mich., Big Bill soon became a union business agent, in nine years fought his way to the presidency. A bitter, irascible foe of shop-wide unionism (i.e., the C.I.O.), he once traded punches with Fellow Czar John L. Lewis during a stormy A.F.L. convention, backed every Republican presidential candidate from Coolidge to Eisenhower. Last year, having quadrupled his union's membership, increased its treasury's assets to $15 million, Bill Hutcheson...
When candidates were nominated by the NBC in late summer, much was made of the wrangles over which men deserved endorsement. Friends and foe of the NBC stood by wondering, apprehensive or exulting that whether this internal strife might mean end of the Committee's effect and, indeed, its existence. But it should be clear that this disagreement among members is the best thing possible for the NBC. It will be time to wory only if the meetings begin showing signs of oiled slickness. The NBC thrives on controversy and if chance for controversy ends it will mean a foothold...
Yale trounced her traditional foe four straight times in the Stadium. But in 1911, the Crimson held Yale to a scoreless tie on Stadium ground, and in 1913 finally...