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...Sergeant Lew Ayres, once famed as the screen's lofty and antiseptic Dr. Kildare, now a veteran and still a conscientious objector (though he thinks compulsory military training might be a good idea), got back from the Pacific, where he was a chaplain's assistant with a hospital unit, made first-wave landings -on Leyte and Luzon. His post-discharge plans: perhaps a go at writing, producing or acting in educational and religious movies, "teaching men to understand one another...
Labor Secretary Lew Schwellenbach, who had made a frantic, futile effort to bring Lewis and the coal operators together, got the news from the White House ticker, was charmed into commenting: "Greatly gratified. . . . I hope that other striking elements in industry will follow the footsteps. . . ." President Truman got the news from Lew Schwellenbach, said that he was "very happy...
...Background. To solve the U.S. labor problem, Harry Truman had picked a man whose career was a curious mixture of the dull and the intriguing. As a Senator, Lew Schwellenbach had been among the most violent of the New Deal's "young Turks," but his personal life has been in every instance conservatively planned. A mild man who chews his cigars, wears horn-rimmed spectacles and sports a zippered sport jacket on the job. Schwellenbach is studious by temperament but short of temper; judicial-minded but a bear at partisan politics; labor-minded but with a sense of fairness...
Wisconsin-born, 51-year-old Lew Schwellenbach is a man with a purpose. A boyhood admirer of William Jennings Bryan, serious-minded young Lew sold newspapers and magazines on the streets of Spokane, where his family moved when he was eight, saved every cent for a college education. At the University of Washington he became a formidable debater, a campus politico, a precinct committeeman in the Democratic Party before he left the classroom. Friends recall that he became a Democrat because the state was full of Republicans; he figured he could get in on the ground floor...
...Lawyer. In 1919 he started a modest law practice, earning about $35 a month. Soon (1921) he found himself in the limelight of Seattle's famous Mahoney trunk murder. His client. James A. Mahoney, was convicted and hanged, but every crime-reading family in the Northwest knew of Lew Schwellenbach's fight to save...