Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Historian Charles A. Beard, in a solemn Manhattan ceremony at the National Institute of Arts and Letters, received the Gold Medal in spite of Critic Lewis Mumford, who resigned from the Institute over it. Mumford didn't want to pass out any medals to so partisanly isolationist a historian...
The brotherhood bosses still refused to comply, apparently determined to make it clear that they would not give in until they were forced. Groups of grim men raced between Government buildings. Newsmen cornered Grand Chief Engineer Alvanley Johnston and demanded to know whether he would call off the strike if...
A Matter of Minutes. Royall summoned Johnston and his colleagues, the firemen's David Robertson and the switchmen's A. J. Glover, to a last-minute conference at the Pentagon. It, too, was fruitless. Five o'clock passed and the strike order still stood. Then Royall and...
The best-known of the three was Grand Chief Engineer Johnston who, along with the trainmen's A. F. Whitney, was scornfully denounced by Harry Truman two years ago when the pair tied up the railways. "These two men," the President had rasped-"Mister Whitney and Mister Johnston." Whitney...
Most prominent defendant was dapper, scholarly Dr. Lewis Hart Marks, 64, president of American Hyalsol and a $35,000-a-year vice president of Publicker Industries Inc., biggest U.S. producer of industrial alcohol. U.S.-born (New Orleans) and U.S.-educated (Tulane and Johns Hopkins), Dr. Marks did medical research in...