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...haired little fellow who would give a man the shirt off his back, people said. Like his Papa, who had been a cigar maker in Sam Gompers' union, he was hot for unions. Willie was a dress presser in the biggest in New York, the International Ladies' Garment Workers (405,000 members). With a wife and four kids to look after, Willie gave up a $180-a-week pressing job last fall to work for $80 as a special organizer: there were still some non-union no-good-nicks in the garment center...
Shoulder to Shoulder. One hundred cops were put on the case, padding patiently from one building to the next in the garment center, questioning 400 people. The great I.L.G.W.U. rose in its wrath. It offered $25,000 for the conviction of Willie's murderers, ordered 65,000 dressmakers to quit work for four hours to attend his funeral...
Next day the producer's wife, a shrewd judge of publicity and an amateur spiritualist, packed Erica and the jacket off to a professional medium. Big, bosomy Medium Jane Harley quivered when she touched the possessed garment. Such a treasure was almost too good to be true. She dragged it over her plump arms and promptly went into hysterics. Then the stage manageress, an old trouper herself, had a go at it, and tore the garment off. "I'm choking!" she screamed, and a very convincing scream...
...Ford Motor Co. But many of the St. Johnnies who had gone to work seemed to have offbeat tastes. One alumnus was producing Chinese films; another had become a ballistics expert; three were fanning in Maryland. There were also an able seaman, an organizer for the International Ladies Garment Workers' Union, a professional Marine Corps officer, and a researcher for the State Department's Voice of America program...
Jimmy got a divorce and married Betty Compton. He tried this & that to keep up his standard of living-a newspaper column, a chicken farm, assistant counsel for the State Transit Commission, a job at $25,000 yearly as czar of labor relations in Manhattan's garment industry. He was still faultlessly tailored, urbane and worldly. In 1942, after his marriage to Betty had also ended in divorce, Jimmy, 60, went back to the Roman Catholic Church. "The glamor of other days I have found to be tinsel," he later said...