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...expensive crop, costing $1.50 a crate to grow, 17? more for inspection, packing and auctioning. They are now selling for $2.20, due chiefly to James Morrison. He wears overalls at his farmers' rallies, waves his arms and lets the wind blow through his hair. "I am the Kingfish," he says proudly, "of the berry business...
Three days later the biggest labor election yet held bolstered up the Hopkins prophecy. Two months ago U. S. Steel, kingfish in the heavy industry pond, voluntarily began signing contracts with C. I. O.'s Steel Workers Organizing Committee (TIME, March 15). The small fry of the steel industry rapidly followed suit. Only possible obstacles to complete organization of Steel were the major independents, Bethlehem, Crucible, Inland, Jones & Laughlin, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, American Rolling Mill. Fortnight ago the storm broke over them with a brief 36-hour strike in Jones & Laughlin, which was settled when the management...
Rated the underdog. Rose Lolita Long, daughter of the late Louisiana "Kingfish," won a hot primary contest for the presidency of the Women's Student Association at Louisiana-State University. Candidate Long's manager, her 17-year-old brother Russell Billiu was aided by Oscar K. Allen Jr., son of Louisiana's onetime Governor. Election day all three cut classes, wheedled at the polls, won for Rose by 27 votes...
...good all-round university, Tulane has an illustrious medical school more than a century old, a football team that often tops the Southern Conference, an administration spunky enough to hold up its end of a feud with Kingfish Huey Long after refusing him an honorary degree. An all-round educator, President-Elect Harris was born in Georgia and went to Mercer University there, graduating in 1917, just in time to serve as a Wartime first lieutenant of infantry. After that he studied at Yale Law School, became a Doctor of Jurisprudence, reached his Tulane deanship in 1927. He established Tulane...
...Real navigator, says Author Flynn, was Providence. They all took turns at the hand pump, which had to be kept going most of the time. Figuring a couple of months for the trip, they took seven, with many a layover for repairs and beachcombing. Once they made $50 catching kingfish; poker games showed a profit; they poached a sheep, paid for it later out of the fee collected on an opium-runner's errand. Diversions included their own brand of Rabelaisian horseplay, drinking bouts, a couple of carnivals, acquaintance with many an odd character...