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Experts in the Trade. Its crack reporter Hildy Johnson (nicely played by Lew Parker) and its cold-blooded managing editor Walter Burns (badly muffed by Arnold Moss) still lived up to the public's conception of the Fourth Estate: they buried the hatchet to bring off a beat; Hildy kept his girl waiting at the altar, as a good reporter should; and Burns double-crossed Hildy to keep him, as a good editor must...
Last week, while Johnson prepared to take over Labor Department administrative functions, "Lew the Laundryman" seemed ready to wash his hands of the whole distressing business...
...year public relations job to a $10,000 post as Under Secretary of Labor (TIME, Aug. 12) set the stage for appeasing the A.F.L. The choice, made with Schwellenbach's approval, also appeared to choke off the longtime ambition of White House Adviser Steelman to succeed the hapless Lew...
Seattle's loud, husky Lewis Schwellenbach chucked a lifetime job as Federal Judge in May 1945 for a traditionally thankless job as U.S. Secretary of Labor. Almost everybody in Washington wondered why. By last week even Lew Schwellenbach had run out of answers...
...stepchild of Truman's official family, life for Lew was embarrassing enough. As the advocate of labor inside the Cabinet, Schwellenbach's existence was frequently made miserable by labor's jealous family quarrel. Latest instance came when Lew let word get out that he planned to appoint a C.I.O. member to the International Labor Organization conference to be held in Montreal in September. Since Sam Gompers helped found the I.L.O. in 1919, the A.F.L. had furnished every delegate to I.L.O. conferences. As soon as he heard of the slight, crusty Bill Green got off a scorching, four...