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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manufacturers could get nowhere toward amendment. Since then A. F. of L.'s leadership has plumped for change. Now Clare Hoffman approvingly quotes A. F. of L. to the considerable embarrassment of Bill Green, who strenuously opposes even more drastic alterations proposed by Hoffman, Burke, N. A. M., the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. John Lewis' C. I. O. resists any change, on the ground that once the Wagner Act is opened up for amendments, Labor's enemies may have a field...
...less publicized public relations problem which Johns-Manville has solved is the fact that it is a "Morgan Company." Twelve years ago when the Manvilles sold control to J. P. Morgan, J-M's employes felt they had been sold down the river. Today, not only have the 10,000 workers forgotten this grievance but their company has acquired a position in the public eye as a model Big Business. Despite antitrust, anti-bigness, anti-Morgan sentiment, it alone of Big Business was held up by Chairman Joseph O'Mahoney of the Monopoly Committee as an example...
...fact, Johns-Manville was the outstanding public relations success of 1938. And the man chiefly responsible is its 45-year-old president, big, handsome Lewis Herold Brown. Last week, at a luncheon celebrating his tenth year as president, the J-M Officers Board (a management group as opposed to the ownership group which forms the board of directors) gave him a gift symbolizing his success in building up J-M esprit de corps-a gold locket containing pictures of his associates. Three days later at the annual stockholders' meeting J-M owners added their stamp of unanimous approval...
...surgeon, but incapable of taking thought without action, he decided to operate at once. He cleared the plates off the table, placed the child on it. He stripped the shade from the lamp. Sweating, exalted, anxious and yet confident, he thought, when the preparations went well: "I'm a wonderful fellow." But when the thunder rolled as he made the incision, he reflected: "A bit previous, the applause." He finished, triumphant-then saw that the child seemed to have stopped breathing...
...thrown that much money at me for two days." "Sweetheart," said the customer, "I'd like to throw more than that at you." Ten minutes later, heading for another joint on Route 40, this fast worker quoted the waitress's price to his chauffeur. "I'm supposed to come back for her at two-thirty," he said...