Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Required to protest to Mr. Browne's fellow councilmen in private, indignant Rats fumed publicly to the press. Hottest was Tallulah Bankhead: "The action of Mr. George Browne . . . is an outrageous piece of banditry. . . . On what meat does this our Caesar feed? . . . This stock company Hitler should, must be hobbled. . . ." Unhobbled Mr. Browne did not vote, otherwise participated as one union politician among others. The legitimate theatre, the cinema industry, the financial interests involved lobbied fiercely to get the council to settle matters without a jurisdictional strike of Rats on Brownies or vice versa...
Unhappiest individual in all this was A. F. A.'s oldtime Comedienne Sophie Tucker, 55, who as its non-salaried president stuck by Mr. Whitehead and loyally condoned his switch to Stagehand Browne. For this she was suspended by all-powerful Equity and other subsidiaries of Four As (barring her in effect from stage, screen and radio), pitied by Thespians who concluded that Sophie at last was showing...
Omitted from their roster by his own desire-although it was announced that the committee would consult him-was aging, ailing Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch, who set up and headed the 1918 War Industries Board. Mr. Baruch's friend and Wartime coworker, Columnist Hugh S. Johnson, who months ago was ruled out of rearmament councils, called this "bumptious folly." Omitted from the official announcement was any explanation of the speed with which Mr. Stettinius, et al. were picked. Plans for allocating U. S. production could be almost as useful to warring friends of the U. S. as to warring...
...convention's Rooseveltian hoopla. To one reporter he said: "It has been prearranged in Washington by Corcoran, Cohen and Ishansky. . . . Since John L. Lewis is pushed out of the picture as the most powerful man in the country, Ishansky is running the country." Inquiry revealed that by "Ishansky" Mr. O'Connor meant "someone who looks like" Constantine Oumansky, Ambassador to the U. S. from Soviet Russia...
...hand to watch proceedings was Treasurer Oliver A. Quayle Jr. of the Democratic National Committee. He took occasion to state that his party had received only a $50,000 loan (since repaid) from John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers for the 1936 campaign. Mr. Quayle next day admitted he did not know what he was talking about. U. M. W.'s 1936 gifts & loans, as reported to Congress, totaled...