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...National Labor Relations Board, in a decision involving the Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp., will rule on recognition of the foremen's union, may well give Lewis as much by edict as he could gain by strike...
...pair demoted able, honest Butler Laughlin from the presidency of the college to a high-school job because, the report said, he could not be "controlled" and once refused to falsify a student's grades at McCahey's request. Soon McCahey and Johnson began influencing grades without reference to teachers, wangling admissions for incompetent applicants, giving teaching jobs to friends. A city councilman's daughter who had been asked by her teachers to leave was awarded a teaching certificate after flunking 15 hours of class work...
...N.E.A. charged, he again demoted Butler Laughlin to make room for one of McCahey's relatives. On less than a day's notice, he pushed competent Mrs. Olive P. Bruner out of the top job in a school for crippled children, replaced her with the sister of a Federal judge. In one 75-day period last fall, Johnson transferred over 600 teachers, in many cases as punishment or to make room for friends...
Down Steel. The profit trend was down in steel, too. U.S. Steel shipped about $2 billions during the year, the most ever, but its net slipped to $60,300,000 v. $62,600,000. Jones & Laughlin, Inland and Republic were down with Big Steel...
Colonel O'Laughlin (a reserve rank) covered St. Petersburg (now Leningrad) for the Associated Press in 1904, and subsequently was used by Theodore Roosevelt as a go-between with the Russians in arranging the Russo-Japanese peace. For two months in 1909, he was Teddy's first assistant secretary of state, then he trekked to Africa with Roosevelt as a personal secretary. In World War I, he was a Major in the Quartermaster Corps, later for a time a U.S. secretary for the Inter-Allied Munitions Council. He bought the 81-year-old Journal in 1925, still does...