Word: machinistic
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...potato bug among dragonflies. "Why, most of my clerks are better educated than I am," Robert Fechner used to say. He quit school when he was 16, worked in a railroad machine shop, then wandered to Mexico, Central and South America and back again as an itinerant machinist. He fought through a losing general strike in 1901 for the 9-hour day, was elected in 1913 to the general executive board of the A. F. of L. machinists' union. He sandwiched in a year's schooling at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, later lectured on labor relations at Harvard...
Died. Walter Costello Kelly, 65, famed vaudeville actor ("The Virginia Judge"), brother of Dramatist George Kelly and Philadelphia Democratic Boss John B. Kelly; of injuries received when he was struck by an automobile; in Philadelphia. A machinist by trade, "Judge" Kelly got his start when oldtime Tammany Leader "Big Tim" Sullivan mistook him for a prominent Virginia politician, asked him to a Bowery clubhouse's annual meeting. When called on to make a speech, he told stories he had heard in a Virginia court, brought down the house...
...into A.F. of L.'s bad graces by espousing much liberal legislation approved by C.I.O. At home, he rashly antagonized Mayor Charles Kennon Quin's San Antonio machine and the potent Irish-Catholic vote. Last week Attorney Paul Joseph Kilday-an Irishman, Roman Catholic and Quin machinist-beat Maury Maverick by 546 votes in 49,312 votes cast. Said Maury Maverick: "Lincoln got beat four times. I guess I can take it once...
...Martin, one of the eight children of a machinist of North Attleboro, Mass., got into politics in 1911, after working up from reporter to owner of the North Attleboro Chronicle (circ. 2,400). After three years each in the State House of Representatives and Senate, he later became executive secretary of the Republican State Committee, obliged Calvin Coolidge in 1922 by running the campaign that saved Henry Cabot Lodge's Senate seat by 7,000 votes. In 1924 Joe Martin managed a campaign for himself, got into the House by a 9,600 plurality. He has remained there ever...
...camp contains about 32,000 prisoners. They are kept there until death results from hard work, bad food and consequent sickness. I met two American citizens in the camp, Arthur Hanley, a chemical engineer from California, and Edward Rose, a machinist from Boston, Mass. They said they came to Russia in 1921 as volunteer workers. Rose said he was arrested in Leningrad in 1923. Hanley was caught trying to escape from Russia to Latvia in 1925. Each was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment, but, although they have served out their sentences, they are still being held. They told...