Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Bridges' long nose was caught in a wringer last week. He had shut down the West Coast waterfront for more than 45 days. He had choked off business in faraway Hawaii, smothered the West Coast's trade with Alaska, had tied up 222 of the coast'...
In West Virginia, Senator Chapman Revercomb is probably closer to being a lame duck than any extant Republican. Although Dewey & Co. will be saddened to see Revercomb depart, they will undoubtedly be a bit relieved. Revercomb is roughly two miles to the right of present party leadership, and his public...
On each of the stiff-backed chairs in Cincinnati's old Music Hall was a foot-square poster labeled "The Champ." It was a picture of a fierce-eyed John L. Lewis, a cigar cocked in his mouth. The 3,000 delegates to the United Mine Workers Convention smiled...
Twice before, John L. had tried to steer his miners' votes. Not many had followed his wrathful advice to vote against Franklin Roosevelt in 1940 and 1944. After his tirade against Harry Truman, newsmen polled many of the delegates, found that about half would vote for Truman.* Next day...
Double Dues. With that off his chest, the Champ turned to union politics. Some delegates had the temerity to demand the right to choose their district officials by a vote of the membership. John L. swiftly squelched that move (21 of his union's 31 districts are ruled by...