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...when his father served as President of the Naval Consulting Board under Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt. During those years Charles Edison supervised the manufacture of war materials at the Edison plant. He lives quietly with his wife (they are childless) in a large stone residence in Llewellyn Park, a private residential section in West Orange. Hard by is the home of his mother, Thomas Edison's second wife, now Mrs. Edward Everett Hughes. Mrs. Hughes publicly supported Alf Landon while her son was supporting President Roosevelt. At 46, with his heavy black hair turning grey, Charles...
Roared C. I. O. Chairman John Llewellyn Lewis, generalissimo of the steel campaign: "The steel barons are engaging in some amusing antics. They are shadow-boxing with their self-created company unions in an attempt to mislead the steel workers and the public into believing they are bargaining collectively with their employes. They are fooling nobody by their mental gymnastics, but instead are making fools of themselves...
...John Llewellyn Lewis: To me, Landon is just as empty, just as inane, just as innocuous as a watermelon that has been boiled in a washtub...
...silent. Consensus is that steel wages will be upped as soon as steel consumers can be persuaded to pay higher prices for the metal. For once the nation's steelmen are not adverse to a general pay increase because that action might undercut the efforts of John Llewellyn Lewis and his Committee for Industrial Organization which is out to unionize the citadel of the open shop...
Because roundworms and earthworms look alike, from time immemorial the lethal effects of roundworm vermicides have first been tried on earthworms before application to humans. Only last spring Pharmacologist Glenn Llewellyn Jenkins of the University of Maryland, chemist and assiduous inventor of synthetic drugs, published an article in the Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association on "Rational Use of the Earthworm for the Evaluation of Vermicides." This profoundly agitated Pharmacologist Paul Dudley Lamson of Vanderbilt University, caused him to write a vigorous rebuttal which Science published last week. Snapped Professor Lamson: "The human Ascaris [roundworm] is a parasitic animal living...