Word: johnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soft & Low. This unremitting little mountain warfare was disturbed last week by a new voice from White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. It was soft and low, but it was the voice of John L. Lewis. He had a message for "the able Mr. Green." Making no mention of his own many troubles (his 385,000 striking coal diggers are making little headway), John L. proposed that the A.F.L. join with him to help Phil Murray's C.I.O. fight against "the giant adversaries which would decimate one by one the major units of organized labor...
...pool their resources for the common defense and general welfare of the labor movement." The Steelworkers are aware that the U.M.W. is itself engaged in a "mighty struggle," Murray added pointedly, and they might well have use for such a defense fund themselves. Cautious Bill Green brushed off John L. Lewis' sweet-smelling offer as "impossible and impracticable...
...tricks from Curley's book. He was tearing through the streets like a wild man, handing out free combs to the ladies and green address books to the men, singing Galway Bay and reciting Curley's sins at the top of his lungs. Another Democrat (John B. Hynes), a Republican and a Progressive were also clacking away at Curley's sins...
...Tiny St. John's College in Annapolis, Md. brags of the world's most distinguished faculty-the authors (Homer to Kant to Kierkegaard) of the 100-odd Great Books, "the real original and ultimate teachers at St. John's." Last week the college added its first lady to the staff: Jane Austen. Newest Great Book: Pride and Prejudice...
...Novelist John P. Marquand lost a legal fight to buy out the interests of six cousins in a 46-acre ancestral estate (scene of his Wickford Point) in Newburyport, Mass. Marquand, who had argued that he could not live in peace with relatives setting up summer homes all over the place, was left with two houses and only 15 acres...