Word: leader
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, husky, able John Francis Shelley, 44, seasoned state political leader and president of the California State Federation of Labor (A.F.L.), handily captured the ever-Republican Fifth District. But Shelley was the first to admit that the labor-heavy Fifth was just replacing one good union man with an other. His predecessor, the late Richard J. Welch, onetime president of the A.F.L. molders' union, had frequently deserted the Republicans to vote labor. When Welch was alive, Boss Ed Flynn tried to get Shelley to run against him; Shelley not only refused but said that if Flynn put up some...
...triumphant Democrats were led by Richardson Dilworth, firebrand Yale-trained lawyer, ex-Marine major, and local leader of the Fair Dealing Americans for Democratic Action (A.D.A.). Working with him was Joseph Sill Clark Jr., a Chestnut Hill socialite. As treasurer and controller respectively, two new Democratic officials will take charge of the city's much-abused purse...
...exhibit points up the key part of the controversy. The original drawing contains no picture of Lenin but merely an abstract picture of a leader of people. In the completed mural, this abstract face is clearly that of Lenin. Rockefeller's representatives said that this face made the mural unacceptable; Rivera said it was a basic part of the mural and was representative of its whole tone...
...chemical engineering and certificates of graduation in fine arts, graphic arts and architecture. Three evenings a week there were public lectures in the Great Hall on subjects ranging from atomic fission to Indonesian dances. Among the Union's eminent alumni had been Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Labor Leader Samuel Gompers, Scientist-Inventor Michael Pupin. Moreover, Cooper Union had served as inspiration for a number of privately endowed technical schools (e.g., Chicago's Armour Institute of Technology) across the country...
Died. William D. Mahon, 88, veteran labor leader and oldtime crony of the late Samuel Gompers in organizing the A.F.L., for 53 years (until he retired in 1946) president of what is now the Amalgamated Association of Street, Electric Railway and Motor Coach Employees of America; in Detroit...