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Solidarity Forever is the theme song but far from the theme of the United Automobile Workers. C. I. O.'s third largest union* and most obstreperous problem child. Last week Solidarity Forever boomed from the throats of 1,000 U. A. W. men convoked in rump convention at Toledo by the supporters of the five U. A. W. officials who were ousted two months ago as "Communists" by Union President Homer Martin (TIME, June 20). This rump meeting enthusiastically passed a resolution asking John Llewellyn Lewis to appoint a receiver of their riven union with full powers to patch...
After three and a half years of the Six-Year Plan, more than 45% of Mexico's population is now officially listed as living on collective farms. The three largest centres for Cárdenas Collectivism are the vast La Laguna cotton districts, the wheat lands of Sonora, and the henequen region in the Yucatan Peninsula which used to lead the world in producing the raw materials for binder twine and rope. Read adjustment after land distribution was so violent that production of henequen fell off by half. During the weeks in which the Peninsula was being collectivized nobody...
...Josephs in Sullivan County, N. Y. is a bosky, 2,000-acre camp, one of the largest of its kind in the U. S., where 1,200 poor Roman Catholic boys and girls from the New York Archdiocese spend their summers, where Dominican nuns study and where Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, well-beloved Archbishop of New York, takes his summer ease. George MacDonald, rich Catholic layman, papal marquis, and friend of the Cardinal, gave St. Josephs a $5.000 pavilion on Lake St. Dominic. In that pavilion last week, Marquis MacDonald, Cardinal Hayes, three bishops, many a monsignor, priest...
Died. Samuel Carson Pirie, 74, yacht-racing board chairman and son of one of the founders of Carson Pirie Scott & Co., Chicago's second largest department store (largest: Marshall Field & Co.); of chronic myocarditis (inflammation of the muscular walls of the heart); at Newport, R. I. Sportsman Pirie's brother John Taylor Pirie, 66, is the store's president, Son Samuel Carson Pirie Jr. is in its retail merchandising division, Second Cousin Samuel Pirie Carson is store operations manager. There are five other Piries, all kin, no other Carsons, in Carson Pirie Scott. Of Scotts there...
...heart attack; in The Bronx, New York. To Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, Lindbergh, Galli-Curci, Marie of Rumania, many another big & little wig have gone sweet-scented Ajello tapers, fashioned from a formula that has been a family secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns only on All Souls' Day. Antonio Ajello...