Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In the paneled palace where John Lewis has his Washington headquarters, the heads of 43 C. I. O. unions assembled last week to appraise their past, plan their future.
One of the first to arrive for the first meeting of the recently established C. I. O. executive board was President Lewis himself, looking hot and tired in summer whites. "Hi, Jim, how are you, boy?" he greeted boyish, diffident James Barton Carey, secretary of C. I. 0. and president...
C. I. O. in 1940 is an imponderable which Mr. Lewis declines to define so long as an implied third-party threat may be useful in swaying the big parties his way.
That any Democratic candidate (including Franklin Roosevelt) would automatically qualify for C. I. O. support, regardless of what the President does or allows to be done to Labor meanwhile, John Lewis has significantly failed to say. Last week he said: ". . . The nation is still in crisis.
Lewis Williams Douglas will not be 45 until next month, but he has already gone far in three careers: business, politics and pedagogy. He quit teaching history at Amherst in 1920 to go back to his native Arizona and follow his grandfather and father into the mining business. But Lew...