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...question before this week's C.I.O. convention was settled before it opened, and without a struggle. In a smoke-filled room of Chicago's huge Stevens Hotel, 95 top C.I.O. executives listened for two hours to glowing, cocky words from Sidney Hillman & Co. about Sidney Hillman & Co.'s Political Action Committee. Then, unanimously and without debate, the C.I.O. Executive Committee voted to keep P.A.C. alive and kicking. Photographers asked C.I.O. President Phil Murray to pose with Hillman. Grinned Murray: "You'll have to clear that with Sidney...
...years bulbous, balding Alex L. Hillman has successfully competed with Macfadden and Fawcett in the lucrative magazine fields of true confessions (Real Story, Real Confessions, Real Romances) , crime (Crime Detective, Real Detective, Crime Confessions) and comics. A onetime book publisher, Alex Hillman has lately pined for prestige...
...important question now was P.A.C.'s future. This was mainly up to PAChief Sidney Hillman and C.I.O. brain-trusters. Two things were certain: 1) P.A.C. would not disband; 2) it would be a potent pressure group in Washington...
...Assassination." The last seven days spewed forth a spate of name-calling rancor. Sidney Hillman said that a Dewey victory would be a "national catastrophe"; John Bricker charged that Communists now control the Democratic party. The New York Daily News thought it "fair to surmise that [Roosevelt] is even now hoping to have one of his sons succeed him as King of the United States...
...highest bidders, he said, were Sidney Hillman's P.A.C. and Earl Browder's Communists. He distinguished between the American Communists and "our fighting ally, Russia." Tom Dewey charged that "Mr. Roosevelt has so weakened and corrupted the Democratic Party that it is subject to capture, and the forces of Communism are, in fact, now capturing...