Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John L. Lewis, a man of vivid dislike, has no use for James Boyd. The reason is secondhand: Lewis primarily doesn't like Secretary of Interior Julius Krug, whom Lewis once described as having a "squirt mentality and a balloonized physique." So when Krug got the President to appoint...
Until last week nobody minded much but 44-year-old James Boyd, a mining engineer, father of four small sons, and former dean of Colorado School of Mines. Because Lewis' miners in Colorado, as elsewhere, are opposed to Boyd, Colorado's Republican Eugene Millikin blocked his confirmation to...
No one had paid much attention to Boyd's unhappy situation. But last week everyone sat up. Without warning, Lewis ordered some 470,000 coal miners east of the Mississippi River to quit work for two weeks to "mourn the unnecessary slaughter of 55,115 men killed and injured...
A Senate committee reacted by at last voting 10 to 1 to confirm Boyd (Millikin dissenting). But Lewis had more on his mind than Boyd. A two weeks' work stoppage would drastically reduce the present big 70 million-ton, soft-coal stockpile-a 45 days' supply. With a...
Manhattan's John H. Lewis of John H. Lewis & Co., who has been a bear for almost three years, had not changed his mind. But he hedged also. Said he: inflation and moderate deficit spending might "become a controlling and powerful bullish stimulant."