Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Author Green's views on C. I. O. are strictly A. F. of L.: that C. I. O. is the rotten fruit of John Lewis' personal, destructive ambition. True to A. F. of L. tradition, Author Green insists that Labor's base and strength are in the shop, that political activity must be nonpartisan and secondary. But, surveying the corporate structure of modern business, he worriedly notes "points of control which Labor cannot reach by collective bargaining alone," goes on to preach Government regulation (and even ownership of railroads), when & where private enterprise "cannot alone adjust itself...
...Green's rival, John Lewis, has one book to his credit: Miners' Fight for American Standards, published...
Liberal by common consent is charitable, 80-year-old John Dewey, who reiterated that Education and the mind in the frayed but clean white collar would conquer all. Liberal too is irritable Stuart Chase, who writes hotly about the conservation of U. S. resources, seems to think everybody else wants to go out and erode a lot of soil. Liberal, as everybody knows, is William Allen White, 71, Republican, editor of the Emporia Gazette, backer of Alfred Landon, who last week published The Changing West to reaffirm his liberal views. Equally liberal is Bruce Bliven, 50, editor, who steered...
...went to an airdrome and, in a hangar, personally decorated five members of the R. A. F. Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross were Flying Officers K. C. Doran, who led the raid on the Kiel Canal, and A. McPherson, who scouted for it; T. M. Wetherall Smith and John Barrett, who landed in heavy seas to rescue the crew of the torpedoed Kensington Court. To Sergeant Pilot W. E. Willits, who brought his ship out of a dive and landed it after the first pilot had been killed by a bullet, the King gave the Distinguished Flying Medal...
...Grapes of Wrath." But her big thrills come when her boy friends (mostly fellow horn players) ask her out for an evening of horn duets and trios. Her hero: sober, 180-lb., 52-year-old Bruno Jaenicke, world's champion horn player, who beeps and purls in John Barbirolli's New York Philharmonic-Symphony...