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...Llewellyn C. Jones, Jr., Oak Park, Illinois--Oak Park and River Forest Township High School...
Years hence, when John Llewellyn Lewis looks back from a dazzling height or a dark depth at the first week of July 1937, he may well mark it as a turning point in his remarkable career. It was the week in which Public Opinion, veering away from both Labor and Management in sheer irritation with their five-week wrangle on the Steel Front, was summed up by Labor's great friend Franklin Roosevelt in Shakespeare's phrase...
...should be summarily dismissed. To Guildsmen such a ukase was more than a shade removed from the closed shop, wherein an employer may only hire from union ranks. But to embattled publishers, the Guild shop would be a closed shop, especially since the Guild now meant C.I.O. and John Llewellyn Lewis...
...attendance at the Royal Academy was disappointing, sales were not. Burlington House announced last week that sales during the first two weeks of the show were up $5,000 over the same period in 1936. Even the venerable president of the Academy, Sir William Llewellyn, G.C.V.O., got in the money by selling a cautious landscape...
When Myron Charles Taylor of U. S. Steel and John Llewellyn Lewis of C. I. O. sealed their historic bargain last March, most observers sighed with relief, assumed that the threat of a great steel strike which had been hanging over the nation for months was ended. They reckoned, however, without Steel's major "independents" - Bethlehem, Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, National, Jones & Laughlin, Crucible, Inland, American Rolling Mill-to whom Big Steel's concession was a shocking betrayal of the industry's traditional united front against unionism...