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Josephine Hancock Logan, who is pleased to be the donor of the annual Logan prize to Chicago's Art Institute but does not like the modernist quality of recent prizewinning paintings, engineered a rival exhibition of pictures to show "Sanity in Art." Among her placid lady guests and her safe and sane pictures, little old Mrs. Logan wandered, smiling brightly...
Last year C.I.O. began to organize Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Along with great Metropolitan, the union also took on the others of the Big Three in industrial insurance. Prudential and John Hancock, set out to enroll the companies' 53,000 industrial agents, whose principal duty is to trudge from house to house, peddling small policies and collecting 10? 25?, or 50? a week from a clientele too poor or too feckless to pay by the year...
...along without most of them. Last February, Mr. Lincoln declared he would never truckle to any organization which did not represent his 29,000,000 policyholders. On a fairly peaceful basis with Prudential, I.I.A.U. filed a complaint against Metropolitan with the New York State Labor Relations Board, against John Hancock with NLRB...
...75th Congress, which was to have helped balance the Budget, last week went home having written its John Hancock boldly across the page of U. S. history. For to the 75th, as to the 73rd five years ago, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his word that an Emergency faced the U. S., and the 75th responded to that magic word as the 73rd never dreamed of doing. In 154 days ending last week, the 75th succeeded in appropriating $12,321,635,000, more than any session of Congress has ever appropriated in time of peace. Breakdown of the appropriations...
Maybe they never heard of "free press"- maybe they think "suppress" is the American way. Will thank Hancock and Browder's ancestors for our Bill of Rights, say I. No I'm not a descendant of a coupla Mayflower Pilgrims but my people were waiting for 'em at Plymouth Rock, when they landed...