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Columnist Vrest Orton, syndicated throughout Vermont, did his Green Mountain best to voice the Vermont view. Said he: "Apparently the wearers of the old school tie still think war is a tea party for they want a $2,000 silver service on the cruiser Montpelier for which the citizens of Vermont's small capital . . . have got to fork out. If I were the Mayor of that city, I would send a wire saying 'To hell with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Montpelier Mutterings | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...President's Mediation Board, after long investigation, had stepped in with recommendations for settling the Puget Sound C.I.O. loggers' strike. Similar contract terms had already been accepted by nonstriking C.I.O. loggers in the Columbia River district. But the answer of O. M. ("Mickey") Orton, strike leader, was a violent denunciation of Board Chairman Clarence Dykstra and his terms as an "all-out, labor-busting and strikebreaking device." Philip Murray, in a cold rage, called Orton's statement "a most reprehensible lying defamation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Showdown | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

Surly, sandy-haired Mickey Orton, who has frequently been accused of Communist sympathies, had the support of few labor leaders last week. Best he could produce was a telegram from Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen's chief, who was in the midst of a deportation hearing on charges of being a Communist himself. Bridges wired "wholehearted support." The 0PM summoned ranting Mickey Orton to Washington. How much it would take to break the log jam in the Northwest was a matter of speculation, but there were indications that Mr. Roosevelt was ready to use whatever force it took...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Showdown | 6/16/1941 | See Source »

...Bisbee, Ariz., Officer A. S. Orton caught a small boy making off with assorted loot from a store. "Just what," asked he, "did you intend to do with this brassiere?" Said the boy: "Make a blindfold for my burro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 21, 1941 | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

...private urban agency, Roy M. Cushman, executive secretary of the Boston Council of Social Agencies, and Miss Hall; careers in planning, Lawrence M. Orton, Commissioner of the New York Planning Board; careers in state and federal service, A. S. Flemming and Paul J. Kern, President of the New York City Civil Service Commission; the T.V.A., Merle Fainsod, assistant professor of Government, and W. J. McGlothlin of the T.V.A.; women in community service, Eleanor T. Glueck...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOLCOMBE TO OPEN P.B.H. CONFERENCE ON PUBLIC CAREERS | 4/12/1940 | See Source »

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