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...aisles were crowded with marchers, hundreds of delegates ably abetted by the leather-lunged 27th Ward-heelers who stooge for Chicago's Mayor Ed Kelly. Placards which they had been holding face down as they sat were now waved high: "Roosevelt and Victory"; "Roosevelt and Lasting Peace." The organ, and a brassy band above it in the gallery, blanketed the loud speakers with furious music. Timed, the actual cheering for the President lasted only 14 seconds; after that the organ and the band alternated, with occasional perfunctory whoops from the galleries...
Scene VIII: on the Floor. As the boos mounted, the band and organ played, and then, from the wings of the Stadium, poured an endless procession of Kelly workers, with Lucas signs: BUSINESS...
...Time (Columbia) a little boy named Stinky found a caterpillar named Curley, a threadbare theatrical agent found them both, and things began to happen fast. Curley was not just a worm; he could do a turn. Whenever Stinky munched Yes, Sir, That's My Baby on his mouth organ, Curley got up on his points and danced. The agent soon made his fame global. He was the toast of feature writers, the darling of lepidopterists. He was photographed embracing Mayor LaGuardia's finger, strolling up a model's leg. LIFE ran him on its cover, with...
...hall was really filled. Earlier, tickets had gone begging by the thousands. This time the chiselers were out in full force, crashing their way past the ushers, squatting in the press seats, the boxes, sneaking on to the floor. Blue haze reached up to the rafters. The band, the organ, then the band again, played & played. Suddenly, in the merciless heat, the Klieg lights flicked on, like a mammoth oven's heat being turned up. The crowd whinnied, groaned and sat fanning languidly, gulping more & more cokes. As the clock reached nine, a tall, grey man, Carl Craven, director...
...capital and labor. This success story divides itself into two parts. Part i includes the early struggle of the needle trades workers to be born and survive as a union. Part 2 includes I.L.G.W.U.'s long struggle with the Communists, who sought to use it as an organ of class struggle, its final defeat of this totalitarian influence under Sigman's and Dubinsky's leadership, and the union's decision to act not as a disruptive organization but as a highly responsible part of the democratic process. It is this story which makes Tailor...