Word: lewises
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This latest attempt to cover the subject of John L. Lewis in one volume makes exciting, highly colorful reading. It draws on interviews more than anything else for its facts, and thus gains a high degree of emotional impact in describing the conflicts that have always surrounded the big, ham...
Harry Truman, as he explained to reporters, felt that the time had not yet come to toss a Taft-Hartley injunction at the 480,000 United Mine Workers. John Lewis, it was true, had merely suspended his coal strike and was threatening to start it again Dec. 1. But there...
Lewis seemed agreeably surprised, too, at this helpful gesture from Harry Truman, who has no more use for John L. than John L. has for him. White House aides had an explanation that accounted for the politics involved, if not the economics: the President, as the avowed pal of labor...
In Chicago last week, where he held a hastily called "yes man" meeting of his union policy committee, John Lewis raised the white flag. Without warning, he ordered his coal diggers back to work immediately on the same terms that he had haughtily rejected. But he served notice that the...
¶ "At a dinner party . . . Franklin turned to Madame Chiang and asked, 'What would you do in China with a labor leader like John Lewis?' She never said a word, but the beautiful, small hand came up very quietly and slid across her throat." ¶ At one of...