Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was a lot more, but no one listened. Then the room was still. Lewis finished. Mary Norton said mechanically: "I thank you for your very fine contribution to this meeting." (Next day, when she caught her breath, Mrs. Norton said she was "displeased" with Mr. Lewis' statement.)
At 10 a.m. next morning, only one man knew how hot would be the words at that session. This was Labormaster John L. Lewis, the first-and next-to-last-witness. Solemnly and heavily he sat in the witness-chair, his coal-miner's pallor* heightened by his rumpled...
Committeemen gasped. Several spectators stood up. Lewis pounded on:
"Some gentlemen may rise in horror and say, 'Why, Mr. Lewis has made a personal attack on Mr. Garner.' Yes, I make a personal attack on Mr. Garner for what he is doing, because Garner's knife is searching for the quivering, pulsating heart of labor. And...
Triumph for Lilienthal was, on the face of it, defeat for Commonwealth & Southern's Wendell Lewis Willkie. It was defeat for Willkie because it was the end of his battle to keep a privately owned public utility on its feet in the Tennessee Valley.