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...Loroy M. S. Miner, dean of the Harvard Dental School, has been chosen president-elect of the American Dental Association at the business session of its annual convention, it was announced yesterday. Dr. Miner will automatically become president one year from now. He is the first dentist from New England to receive this honor since...
...delegate impugning my motives?" thundered the beefy, bull-necked leader of 400,000 United Mine Workers. Belligerently Mr. Lewis stomped down the aisle to Mr. Hutcheson, tapped him menacingly on the shoulder, shouted something about "mighty small potatoes." Bystanders heard Mr. Hutcheson call Mr. Lewis a fighting phrase. Miner Lewis smacked his fist into the Hutcheson face. Carpenter Hutcheson countered with an ineffective right. Thereupon, Miner Lewis sent him sprawling to the floor amid the wreckage of a table...
...majority on the executive council. This year at last both factions stepped openly into the ring for the first time. Of the five rounds fought, John L. Lewis won two, lost two, tied one. This record, however, did not indicate the full extent to which the contest had increased Miner Lewis' stature in the eyes of many a liberal U. S. Laborite...
...Communists, John Lewis is no more than a slick labor politician. But Miner Lewis has worked in Illinois coal pits, has his own ideas about the Labor Front. Disgusted was he, therefore, when the executive council, controlled by Green & Co., gobbled at the bait offered by the American Legion, proposed to alter A. F. of L.'s constitution, outlaw Communist members (TIME, Oct. 21). At a Federation convention the 525 delegates cast some 30,000 votes. Of these the miners control some 4,000. Leader Lewis picked up another 7,000 from unions like David Dubinsky's International...
Roared a Seaham miner at Lord Privy Seal MacDonald last week: "After 40 years of public life telling funny stories, aren't you sick and tired...