Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Federal Judge T. Alan Goldsborough, who is getting to be an old hand at dealing with John L. Lewis, tried hard last week to avoid having to slap him down again. The "national tragedy" of another coal strike, said Judge Goldsborough, would rouse the country and Congress against Lewis, perhaps...
Although Lewis was not in court, Judge Goldsborough let John know what he thought of him. "There is no such thing as a benevolent despot," he said. "It's your boundless audacity, O Catiline."* Then he ordered Lewis, under the Taft-Hartley law, to bargain with all the coal...
Ernie Explodes. One day last week, U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas called on Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin; what he had to say was brutally simple. President Harry Truman had recognized the State of Israel (that neither George Marshall nor Lew Douglas himself was particularly happy about their boss's sudden...
One evening in Manhattan's old Hippodrome twelve years ago, Ed ("Strangler") Lewis was trying to pin Lee Wykoff to the mat with some purely scientific holds. It was an honest wrestling match without any phony dramatics. It was also horribly dull to watch. At the end of two...
His detractors charge that John is as much of a "personality" as an artist. His champions retort that John's preoccupation with personality, his own as well as others', is perfectly natural and proper in a portrait painter. His own exuberant, self-assertive nature looms large in his...