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Last November President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, who had come up from the mines to become William Green's great foe as leader of the Committee for Industrial Organization, delivered a grave insult to Coshocton's most famed son. He impudently ordered William Green to show cause why he should not be expelled from the U. M. W. (TIME, Nov. 22). Realizing that under union rules they could try Billy Green if John L. Lewis pressed his expulsion order, the Morgan Run unionists became more interested in their local than they had been...
...Grand Old Party of Lincoln, McKinley and Harding last week received the ultimate insult. In the American Magazine shrewd old Charles ("Charley the Mike") Michelson, ace Democratic press-agent whose propagandizing since 1928 gets an owl's share of credit for returning his Party to power and keeping it there, published a straight-faced article titled My Advice...
...quote continues, "Princeton men are usually very sociable and pleasing. Williams men are very nice, though not as glamorous." The "snooping reporter" was baffled by the subtle mellowed-with-learning phrase "saturated with Boston," which the young girls applied to Harvard men, and unfortunately took it as a n insult, called it a "rather dubious rating...
...much for England. Yet with an almost vengeful relentlessness he continues to harry Edward, forbidding him to live here or there, refusing him an income from the public funds, fighting to keep Edward's family from his wedding. Now the Prime Minister wishes to add insult to intolerance by refusing to Mrs. Simpson the title the Duke of Windsor's wife would ordinarily expect. Americans will not understand this move who have been taught to believe that the virtue of the English is their sense of fairness and good humor and their reluctance to hurt a man when...
...advice of his father, Leo F. Curley has resigned as a student at the Harvard Law School, it was revealed by former Governor Curley last night. The cause of resignation came when a professor at the School subjected the Curley regime to "an unwarranted and contemptible insult...