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John Ansell is sixth Langdon Smith seventh, Maynard Caulfield eights, and Dwight Davis ninth at the present time...
...group didn't ask Mulvihill to resign, but forced the union's board of directors to call an election for the presidency. Instead of running for the job themselves, they put up Burr Hall janitor Elwyn Wyman for the top position and Mrs. Helen Maynard, a maid in Eliot House, for the vice-presidency. Mulvihill suddenly withdrew from the race, and Wyman was elected. But the pace proved too tough, and Wyman resigned after only a month in office. No one knew exactly...
Ordinarily, when a vice-president moves up, he must name one of the board members to fill his old position. But Slocum and McNamara told Mrs. Maynard not to fill the vacancy with anyone so an election could be held if she resigned. McNamara was secretary of the union at the time, and quietly dictated to the president the policy that beat off an attempt to incorporate the H.U.E.R.A. into the A.F.L. Although new himself to organized labor, he had the advice of two old pros. Slocum has been in union work since 1919, and Robert Green, another leader...
Early in October, Mrs. Maynard resigned, the second president to go in less than six months, claiming she had been pressured out of the job by anonymous phone calls which were ruining her health. When McNamara was elected president last week, he had little to say about the past. "Just tell them that I have no intention of quitting," he said. "I'll sweat out whatever is thrown...
...election was a special one called to choose a successor to Mrs. Helen Maynard who resigned last month. Mrs. Maynard moved up from the vice-presidential spot last spring upon the resignation of Elwyn Wyman from the top position...