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...hospital-to-hero episode began about seven years ago when Norris, never much of an athlete, plummeted from a 30-foot chimney scaffold on to a brick carrier's hod, injuring his left heel. Repeated attempts to heal it disclosed a dislocated...
...Hod's Head. Meanwhile the House Education and Labor Committee got an odd lesson in semantics. The United Auto Workers' Robert Buse, leader of the ten-month-old Allis-Chalmers strike, admitted that he, and "everybody else on the picket line," had signed a nominating petition for a Communist candidate for governor of Wisconsin. But then he coolly denied that he was a Communist himself, or that his Local 248 was Communist...
Congressional tempers were not improved by another choice bit of double-talk before the Senate committee the day before. Squinting through a pair of dark glasses, the A.F.L. Hod Carriers' pious Joseph V. Moreschi listened while his lawyer read his plea...
...committee paid small attention to that plea. It remembered that Joe Moreschi, whose union went 30 years without holding a convention, is under indictment for embezzling $500,000 of Hod Carriers' funds...
...switch at Carbide & Carbon was a minor triumph for the C.I.O. As a last-minute campaign tactic it had accused the A.F.L. of scheming to put Oak Ridge workers into the corrupt and autocratic Hod Carriers Union. An A.F.L. suit for criminal libel was too late to stop the damage. Summed up Southern A.F.L. Representative George Googe: "Chaos for another year...