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...whole membership. . . ." (TIME, Aug. 17). Promptly passed by a unanimous vote was a resolution condemning the A. F. of L.'s treatment of Miner Lewis, endorsing the principle of industrial unionism. At that point the delegates abruptly reefed their sails, declined to head into C. I. 0. Likeliest explanation was that A. F. of T., whose members pay a maximum 40? a month dues, cannot afford lobbyists in every State capital, must depend on the A. F. of L.'s regular lobby for legislative representation, must stay in the A. F. of L.'s good graces. Purred...
Boom's Beginning. It had been a curious process which in a few months had raised Alfred Mossman Landon from Kansas obscurity to national prominence as far & away the likeliest GOPossibility. Still honestly dazed by it. Governor Landon explains: "We didn't do anything at first. We just sat back and it all happened...
Director Geiger thrilled the city by suggesting a mass murder plot. Likeliest suspect was a Chicago chef who in 1912, at a banquet for Cardinal Mundelein, put arsenic in the soup of 1,000 guests, killed several, sickened hundreds. Indicted for murder, the chef escaped, has since been accused of two other mass poisonings by arsenic. A New York chemist made San Francisco's mystery more exciting by reporting that he had found similar mixtures of arsenic and fluoride in baking soda two years ago. Director Geiger set out to investigate the cases of 30 San Franciscans...
...Detroit Tigers: the American League pennant, for the second year straight; by beating the St. Louis Browns, 2-to-0, for their 92nd victory of the year, which made it impossible for the New York Yankees to catch them before the season ends Sept. 29; in Detroit. Likeliest opponents for the Tigers in the World Series were the Chicago Cubs, who last week defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, their 18th consecutive victory...
...both are legitimate embellishments for a story about an overconfident song-&-dance man regenerated by the good influence of a partner who keeps him sober and rescues him from the clutch of a gangster's wife (Helen Morgan), Go Into Your Dance is satisfactory entertainment of its school. Likeliest song hit: "About a Quarter to Nine...