Word: kathryne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stage-struck eldest, wants the reporter's hand because she thinks that he can put her name in lights. The middle five, slaves of an old Dutch custom giving first chance to the eldest, aid & abet the match for all their high Cs are worth although Billie (Kathryn Grayson), the youngest, loves him just for himself, but cannot bear to offend tradition by making off with...
...days Murray sat and took it. When he tried to speak, Lewis stooges yelled: "Sit down!" Choked with anger, Murray lapsed into unhappy, tight-lipped silence. Even girlish-faced, rotund, hard-boiled daughter Kathryn Lewis took a turn at lashing him. Murray, warning the Lewises that their acts would lead to national disunity, finally walked...
...Kathryn the Great. Many months ago, Lewis seized on the Gas, By-Products, Coke & Chemical Division of his U.M.W., put an old & trusted henchman, Ora Gassaway, in top-sergeant command. Tough, unbeautiful Mr. Gassaway was only a top sergeant. Real boss was Daughter Kathryn, whom Lewis made secretary-treasurer...
Coke & Chemical, known as District 50, took the field in skirmish order, leaping jurisdictional fences, rounding up new members for the Lewis camp. Said Kathryn blandly: "It is amazing how many things can be traced to a coal origin, with coke, chemicals, plastics and utilities as starting points." Workers in any of those materials, the Lewises reasoned, were fair game...
Behind closed doors, in committee meetings, disputes sputtered all week. In the Statler's lobby and bar, there were several short but solid fist fights between C.I.O. brethren. Though Lewis stayed in Washington, Daughter Kathryn was at the convention. So was Brother A. D. ("Denny") Lewis. Surrounded by delegates of his construction-workers union, he sat glowering on his hunkers through the convention, ostentatiously keeping his seat whenever the rest of the delegates rose to applaud. When Brother Denny went abroad he was accompanied by a beefy bodyguard...