Word: hillmanism
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...Class of 1944: William Murray Ennis Jr., Edward Spence Fitzgibbons, John Christopher Friedmann, Joseph Everett Garland, Frederick Joseph Hillman, Walter Kennedy, Harold Kresberg, Jules Calvin Ladenheim, Jason Marks, Thomas Newell Metcalf Jr., Gerald David Rosenbloom, Philip Hunt Russell Jr., Robert Stewart Smith, George Richard Warfield Jr., Herbert Joslin Wilson...
...smoothly disciplined convention rolled to a close, delegates rose to their feet for a minute of silence in honor of two departed friends of labor. For Sidney Hillman the minute shrank unaccountably to 20 seconds, as clocked by newsmen. For Franklin D. Roosevelt it was extended to 65 by sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued President Fitzgerald. He growled afterwards to press-table timekeepers: "Was that one long enough for you, you bastards...
...portraitist rather than a creator. Will Rogers had called him the "last of the savage head-hunters." He had met and modeled almost all the significant figures of modern times. Foch, Balfour, Lloyd George, Benes, Litvinoff, John D. Rockefeller the elder, Andrew Mellon, Sinclair Lewis, Sidney Hillman, Clemenceau, Mussolini, Gandhi and Aldous Huxley were only a few of his trophies. He was convinced that Franklin Roosevelt was the greatest of them...
...Suitcase. Texas-born Tom Spies is a gregarious, genial sort who can charm his charity patients into doing anything for him, and charm the better-heeled into supporting his research. Most of his work is done at the Hillman Hospital in Birmingham, Ala. during an annual eight months' leave of absence from the University of Cincinnati. Unmarried, he refuses to own anything he cannot crowd into a suitcase, lives in hotel rooms to save bother, talks little but shop...
Died. Joseph Catalanotti, 59, a founder and vice president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; of a heart attack, five days after his longtime friend and associate, Amalgamated President Sidney Hillman, died at the same age of the same ailment; in Bay Shore...