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Speaking for C.I.O. was Philip Murray, 52, calm, suave chairman of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee. He it was who negotiated the details of C.I.O.'s contract with U. S. Steel Corp. A Scot from Lanark, his opponent in those negotiations was another miner's son, Benjamin Franklin Fairless, last week named as Big Steel's next president (see p. 59). (As they started their talks, Steelman Fairless, recalling that his father, too, had been a union man, said to Laborman Murray: ". . . Call me Ben." In his soft burr, Mr. Murray replied: "Yes, Mr. Fairless...
...International Art, to whose vernissage none but California's double thick social cream would be invited. One day last week the invited cream, 2,000 strong, flowed fatly to the intimate opening. They came from parties given by such art-lovers as Norma Shearer and Mrs. Randolph Huntington Miner and jostled, perspired, stared at each other instead of at the pictures. After the first day, the milk of the citizenry to the number of 30,000 saw the show's first week. In the two months the International Art exhibit is to run, the Association, now letting department...
...highest wages paid to miners in the Westphalia fields are paid by the French-owned de Wendel properties. This famed international munitions trust uses cast-iron props and other gadgets considered "advanced" in Europe throughout its Friedrich Wilhelm Mine. There the average miner's monthly wage is 210 marks ($84.35) and ne rents nis nouse and garden from the de Wendels for 24 marks per month...
Born in Bisbee, Ariz., "Lew" Douglas got a decoration when he was in the A.E.F. artillery, came home and became a citrus rancher and copper miner in Arizona. He served in the House of Representatives for six years before his appointment to the Treasury in 1933. While his only previous experience as an educator was as a history instructor at Amherst College, his alma mater, in 1920, those who knew the family history were not as surprised by "Lew" Douglas' appointment to McGill last week as most U. S. and Canadian citizens. His grandfather was Quebec-born James Douglas...
...Gordon, Lawrence Langner, Gilbert Miller, Brock Pemberton, Rowland Stolibins, producers; Ina Claire, George M. Cohan, Lynn Fontaine, Walter Hampden, Helen Hayes, Eva Le Gallienne, Alfred Lunt, actors; John Gasson, John Hanrahan, Joseph Wood Krutch, Burns Mantle, Ruth Pickering, critics and editors; Edward Goodman, Harry Wagstaff Gribble, Worthington Miner, Philip Moeller, Antoinette Perry, Leo Strasborg, directors; A. M. Drummond of Cornell University, SamSawyer Falk, of Syracuse University, Garrett H. Leverton of Northwestern University, E. C. Mabie of the University of Iowa, Allardyce Nicoll of Yale University, Frank Hurburt O'Hara of the University of Chicago, Arthur Hobson Quinn of the University...