Word: lew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LEW CUNNINGHAM...
...until last week did Harry Truman get around to his promised reorganization of the Government's labor functions. Then, with the battle well under way, he incorporated the War Labor Board, the U.S. Employment Service and the War Manpower Commission into Secretary Lew Schwellenbach's reviving Labor Department. In turn, Schwellenbach announced the appointment of handsome, wavy-haired Edgar L. Warren, who had been chairman of the regional labor board in Chicago, to head a revitalized U.S. Conciliation Service. Chief Conciliator Warren dispatched 20 of his 250 conciliators to Detroit to try to thrash things...
...Manhattan, Tin Pan Alleysmiths Shapiro-Bernstein heard a recording of Jilted Love in 1938, hired Songwriter Lew Brown to write some words that would bounce like the music. Result: the Polka's now familiar "Roll out the barrel" lyrics...
Last week for the first time Composer Vejvoda heard Lyricist Lew Brown's malty English lyrics translated by a U.S. newsman. As he drew beers for customers in his inn, he smiled appreciatively. "You know, those are better words for a song written by an innkeeper," he told the newsman. "Have another one on the house...
...E.W.T.). Salary: $25,000 a year. Said Mayor LaGuardia, an old dragonslayer on the radio himself: "Busting gangs on the microphone, Lew, is going to be real easy. . . . Give them the works...