Word: glovers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Matter of Minutes. Royall summoned Johnston and his colleagues, the firemen's David Robertson and the switchmen's A. J. Glover, to a last-minute conference at the Pentagon. It, too, was fruitless. Five o'clock passed and the strike order still stood. Then Royall and Assistant Attorney General H. Graham Morison hurried off to Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who had agreed to stand by in his chambers. Just three weeks ago, Judge Goldsborough had slapped fines of $1,420,000 on John L. Lewis and the U.M.W. It took him only a few minutes...
Between 73-year-old Grand Chief Johnston and 72-year-old David Robertson, the wrinkled little chief of the firemen, there has been a long rivalry; they were trying to outdo each other as tough labor leaders. A. J. Glover, the big-boned boss of the switchmen, was newly elected; he also was trying to make a show with his rank & file. But all three leaders were chiefly resentful because railway wages had not kept pace with other industrial wages. Railway workers are no longer at the top of the labor heap. For oldtimers like Johnston and Robertson, this...
Billy Fox wasn't the only young fellow to drop out of the running in a hurry. There had been a lot of talk about a young hopeful named Coley Wallace, 20-year-old Golden Glover who looks a little like Joe Louis. But Wallace didn't look like a young Louis in the ring last week (while winning the eastern Golden Gloves championship), and talk about him hushed...
...Yardlings, a missionary from the Divinity School, and a Milne enthusiast from the Green-Forest more widely known as Radcliffe gathered in Grays Hall yesterday afternoon to brew some Pooh which splattered on such diverse personalities as Charles W. Duhig '29, assistant dean of the College, and Glover Rueter '46, dean of a local humor society...
...Glover Rueter, Jr. '47, Lampoon president, greeting his well-wishers in his tiled anteroom, boomed expansively, "Our Ibis is back to stay--we made sure of that. We had it filled with special lead to keep it steady--three sheets to the wind, as we sailors...