Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For a week, the rumor had flitted along Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue: John L. Lewis was buying the staid, red-chimneyed National Bank of Washington.
Colton and White said they did not know who had bought the bank. Broker Johnston, who was elected a director, knew but was telling no one. However, the United Mine Workers had been talking for some time about buying a bank-and it made good financial sense. The welfare fund...
Denny blamed most of his troubles on the mayor. In a pale lavender imitation of brother John's purple prose style, he called Mayor O'Dwyer a doublecrossing participant in "one of the most vicious strikebreaking cabals in the labor history of this great city." But the next...
Long years before the Labor Government came to power, London's County Council was the rock of Fabian Socialism in Britain. In the capital's tough, cockney-flavored municipal government, Oxford-accented Fabians had fought and won their first battles. Labor's political machine, reaching into all...
Children who get sick from such allergic conditions as hay fever, asthma and eczema may be like the little boy in Lewis Carroll's jingle ("And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases"). Children sometimes enjoy their parents' annoyance...