Word: john
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that article your Milwaukee correspondent says that the character "John Steele" in my play, To the End of Time, is John Lewis. I merely wish to say that I have no control over anybody's personal opinion. Nor is that particular feature in his report the one that motivates this letter. What I have in mind is a certain very important inaccuracy-albeit undoubtedly an inadvertent one-in your article: your correspondent said that I obtained my finances from the "antilabor overlords" of Milwaukee. That is not true even in the very slightest degree! And if ever it becomes...
Last week President Roosevelt left Washington for Hyde Park in time for the first snow of the season. Through sleet and rain he drove to church, stayed to preside as senior warden at a vestryman's meeting. Home to Uvalde on the windswept Texas plains went Vice President John Nance Garner, to a State that has been fussing about a proposed special session of its Legislature, and an appalling murder down at Comanche.* Back to his old Kentucky home (Paducah) went Senate Leader Alben Barkley...
...Carolina in the Senate, Lindsay Carter Warren of North Carolina in the House. Powerful Mr. Warren, a bull-built, blunt, 49-year-old country lawyer with a fine stand of black hair, may one day be Speaker of the House, notwithstanding the hankering of the White House Janizariat for John W. McCormack, of Boston's famous Ward 8. Last week Lindsay Warren, working glove-smooth with Leader Sam Rayburn of Texas, Whip Paddy Boland of Scranton, Pa., delivered the South bound-and-gagged to the New Deal. John McCormack broke a long and agonized silence on the embargo-repeal...
...modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
...intimate associations with John Lewis in the United Mine Workers (before C. I. O. was formed), with A. F. of L.'s Founder Sam Gompers, with many another Laborite and politico, impersonal Author Green tells almost nothing. The one anecdote in his 194 pages of record and analysis concerns John D. Rockefeller Jr. (see col. 2) and the ill-famed Ludlow "massacre" at a Rockefeller coal mine in Colorado, where eleven children and two women suffocated when National Guardsmen burned a strikers' camp. Mr. Green was dedicating a monument to the Ludlow martyrs of 1914 when a closed...