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Cornell C. Keck, stroke; J. P. Wiles, D. R. Pierce, 6; W. F. Hale, 5; E. C. Duval 4; R. J. Miller, 3; P. R. McCormack, 2; W. Packard, bow; A. Brede, cox, Harvard; T. S. Ross, stroke; H. C. Grant 7; H. F. Weber, 6; R. B. Perkins. 5; R. W. Macnamara, 4; T. A. Haymond, 3; J. P. Kettelle, Jr., 2, C. R. Polhemus, how; D. P. S. Paul...
Thirty-four years ago, shop-apprentice George T. Christopher's biggest worry in business life was how to get along with his foreman at Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. This week George Christopher again worried about his relations with foremen-but this time it was 1,200 of them. Packard Motor Car Co.'s President George Christopher had been informed that 666 of his 1,200 foremen had voted to be represented by the fast-growing and belligerent Foremen's Association of America...
...union's president, mild-mannered little Robert H. Keys, who had been a foreman himself (Ford), was quick to crack back. Bob Keys talked of "strikes along legal channels" to whip Packard into contract-signing...
...open back seat of a Packard touring car, Candidate Roosevelt set out, bundled to his white-stubbled chin in a beaver-collared overcoat, his old brown campaign fedora scrunched on his balding poll. Beside him sat Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau, shivering in a lightweight topcoat, his nose and chin blue with cold. The sky was lead-colored, the wind sharp. Franklin Roosevelt coughed occasionally and his eyes watered behind his pince-nez. But at Poughkeepsie, Wappingers Falls, Kingston and Newburgh, he waved his arm, grinned, bobbed his head vigorously, spoke cheerfully to the street crowds...
...right field, Franklin Roosevelt's Packard drove up a ramp. The President dismounted, stepped a few feet to a speaker's stand. It began to pour. The President took off his grey fedora, let the Navy cape drop from his shoulders. Standing in the rain in his grey sack suit, he spoke for five minutes. Said he: Bob Wagner "deserves well of mankind...