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...would have enjoyed the Martinis at these affairs. The Fellows have come to refer to her affectionately as "Aunt Agnes," and Aunt Agnes' Fellows have acquired a free-swinging conversational style under brilliant Archie MacLeish. After one long-winded speech from a guest economist, Fellow Ed Lahey rose and inquired: "Would you mind summarizing the point in ten thousand words...
...expected until the present Fellows get back to their typewriters. Meanwhile, they are having a fine time. Bachelor Fellow Herb Lyons of the Mobile Press Register lives in a domitory; all the rest have apartments or houses. Their wives complain that they are rarely home for dinner. Ebullient Ed Lahey, who already knows most of the Cambridge cops by name and won enough from his fellow Fellows in a poker game to buy a ton of coal, has begun to educate Boston. When newspapers there began yelling for Granville Hicks's resignation because he made a fundraising speech...
...Fellows and their Houses are: John McL. Clark, Washington Post editorial writer, to Dunster; Wesley Fuller, Boston Herald reporter, to Winthrop; Frank S. Hopkins, Baltimore Sun reporter, and Edwin A. Lahey, Chicago Daily News reporter, both to Adams; Hilary H. Lyons, editorial writer on the Mobile Press Register, to Leverett; Louis M. Lyons, Boston Globe reporter to Lowell; Edwin J. Paxton, Jr., editorial writer for the Paducah Sun-Democrat, to Eliot; and Osburn Zuber, chief editorial writer on the Birmingham News, to Kirkland...
When questioned as to his attitude toward picketing, Lahey, who was the labor writer for the Chicago Daily News said, "In this stage of labor relations violence and the sit-down strike are the only weapons against repression." He brought out the fact that 95 per cent of all sit-down strikes took place in a period when employers were deliberately disobeying the Wagner Act on advice of counsel...
...corporations to solve the problems which they create such as old age pensions, permanent unemployment and opportunity for young people," Lahey continued. He cited Australia as one of the many countries which was far ahead of the United States with an administrative labor board...