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...become the biggest, richest, most powerful union in the land. Backed by eleven other industrial unions, leader Lewis is now attempting to organize Steel's 500,000 workers on the same principle. Beyond that- implicit in his announced plan to organize the automobile, rubber, lumber and textile industries as well as steel-lies a far greater goal...
...more than 24 hours the Democratic Party's best carpenters made a great to-do over putting these pieces together again. First the 53 members of the Resolutions Committee, without waiting for their official appointment, held a public hearing and examined every piece of lumber, knotty or warped, new or shopworn, which was hopefully offered as platform material by leaders of blocs and factions, economists, radicals, cranks. Heard by the committee were A. F. of L.'s William Green, American Farm Bureau Federation's Edward A. O'Neal, the National Grange's Louis J. Taber...
Scene: Cleveland. No deer but any tame elephant would have felt at home that day in Cleveland's auditorium. The audience chattering, the band playing, the smell of fresh pine lumber, were mindful of a circus. Over the delegates, like a cumulus cloud, hung a battery of loudspeakers shrouded in gauze. The voice of a man amplified to unearthliness rumbled through the hall. Chairman Henry Prather Fletcher, a midget in white, stood in a blaze of golden light from batteries of lights above his head. Everywhere cigaret smoke curled through the blue beams of eight great floodlights glaring down...
...Edith Katherine MacDonald; in London. Grounds: misconduct. Divorced. Charles Henry Huberich, 59, Toledo-born scholar of international law; by Nina Mdivani Huberich, sister of the celebrated Georgian "Princes" David, the late Serge and Alexis Mdivani; in The Hague. Died. Harry Palmerston Williams, 46, son of Louisiana's late Lumber Tycoon Frank B. Williams, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Marguerite Clark, speed-plane builder associated with the late pilot "Jimmy" Wedell (Wedell-Williams); in an airplane crash; at Baton Rouge, La. Died. Commander Elmer F. Stone, U. S. N., 49, co-pilot of the seaplane N-C 4 which...
...toothpaste, shaving cream, etc.), and paperboard for "set-up" boxes (for candy, shoes, etc.). Container Corp. dates from 1926, when Philadelphia Paper Manufacturing Co. was merged with the paper board division of Chicago Mill & Lumber Co., a business founded in 1881 by Hermann Paepcke. Founder Paepcke stayed on as president until his young son Walter, four years out of Yale, stepped into his father's shoes in 1921. When Container Corp. was formed, Walter Paepcke became its president at 29. For his executive vice president he had an old-line boxmaker named John Paul Brunt, onetime head...