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...Weary." On the last day of C. I. O.'s convention John Lewis nominated his successor: 54-year-old Philip Murray, who began his career at the age of ten working in a Scottish coal mine, still has a miner's shoulders and a Scotsman's burr. Sidney Hillman seconded Murray's nomination, for Murray's election was the brightest hope for harmony in C. I. 0. When Murray won, Lewis shook his hand far more cordially than he had shaken Hillman's, gave him an ivory gavel, "symbol" of C. I. 0. leadership...
Congratulatory messages from President Conant, Dean Burwell of the Medical School, and Dean Miner of the Dental School are included in the first issue. Other features include a discussion of the mottling effect of fluorine on tooth enamel, several essays concernng dentistry and national prepardness, alumni news, and letters relating to the new plan for dental education at Harvard...
Nixon stressed that the Lewis declaration was not so much pro-Willkie as anti-Roosevelt. The shaggy-haired head miner feels that the President does not really represent labor, and that continued support of Roosevelt by organized workers would tend to tie them to the Democratic party. Lewis believes, according to Nixon, that the long run interest of labor lies in keeping independent of both parties...
...friends and relations, his father, his mother, his wife Sue. His profession was screenwriting, for which he received as much as $3,500 a week, $40,000 a script. He reached Hollywood from West Terre Haute, Ind. 27 years ago, with 50? in his pocket and experience as coal miner and sign painter. As extra, prop boy, sign and scenery painter, gag man, director, producer, he grew up fabulously with the fabulous movie business...
...centrifugal force for Director Wood's sentiment is the impudent, pug-nosed, forlorn little face of Hollywood's latest Cinderella-Betty Brewer, 13. Three years ago Betty's father, a Joplin, Mo. lead miner, lost his job, went on relief. The following year he joined the Okie parade to California, where he joined a hunger strike at the State Capitol in Sacramento. But Betty didn't like that. This is her story: "I decided we weren't gonna go on relief in Sacramento. So Ilene [her younger sister] and me worked out a plan...