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Utopian Ideal. Gompers had hoped to be succeeded by dapper Matthew Woll, then head of the tight little Photo-Engravers Union. But John L. Lewis opposed Woll. Lewis was also scheming to become Calvin Coolidge's Secretary of Labor. He wanted a quiet and friendly man as president of the federation. The big bloc of votes from the U.M.W., and the votes of other chieftains who wanted no interference with their own ambitions and intrigues, elected Green president of the A.F.L. Four days later, he enjoyed one of the big moments of his life-Coshocton welcomed him home with...
...took the ego, the imagination and the opportunism of John L. Lewis to prove that the social and economic climate of the New Deal made almost anything possible, that spending union funds on industrial organization was not a gamble. Green was appalled by the defection of his friend John Lewis to the C.I.O. and by the uproar which attended it. When Lewis bloodied Bill Hutcheson's face during the tense 1935 convention, Green reprimanded him from the platform...
Coshocton likes and admires Bill Green. It is one spot in the U.S. where the citizenry thinks he is a bigger man than John Lewis. Coshocton has had a grudge against John L. ever since he came through town and told reporters: "I thought I saw Bill Green, but it was just a baggage man leaning against a post...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducts Ravel's Ma Mère l'Oye; Beethoven's Symphony...
Twenty-two fraternities form an oligarchy among an aristocracy, embracing one seventh of a total University population of approximately 7,000. Around them is now coalescing an incipient campus revolution. After a quarter of a century of laissez-faire administration, John L. Newcomb, president for a quarter of a century, relinquished his chair this week to Colgate Darden, former governor of the state and chancellor of William and Mary. Darden is an outspoken advocate of limiting the fraternities, which currently enjoy free flowing liquor and a similar interpretation of parietal rules. There are no bars in Charlottesville, so that liquor...