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...When he veered toward liberalism, the left-wing needle trades union called him "a deserter." "This wounded his moral self-esteem," and he resigned in "disgust with the whole mess." Benjamin Schlesinger, president of the I.L.G.W.U. Born in Lithuania, Schlesinger began his U.S. life as a boy match peddler in the Chicago slums. "The really dominant emotional undertone in Schlesinger's long career was a deep, almost fierce devotion to this country and its democratic institutions." For him "America was liberty." Later, in the I.L.G.W.U. 's long civil war of right wing v. left wing, Schlesinger fell...
Married. General Morris Abraham ("Two-Gun") Cohen, 57, old China hand and soldier of fortune; and Judith Clark, 40, proprietress of Montreal's Judith Clark dress shop; she for the second time, he for the first; in Montreal. A British-born onetime clothes peddler, he met China's late great Sun Yat-sen in Vancouver's Chinatown, became his personal bodyguard, later led Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese regulars and served in Europe as a secret agent for the Chinese...
...humblest of Cuba's humble pueblo. He began his education (including English) in a U.S.-Quaker missionary school. He made a hungry living as a laborer in the cane fields, on the docks and railroads. He was a jack-of-all-trades: tailor, mechanic, charcoal vender, fruit peddler, and finally an Army stenographer. In the Army he got around, became a staff sergeant with remarkably wide connections. When Gerardo Machado's hated dictatorship rotted away in 1933, Sergeant Batista, then 32, astounded the Western Hemisphere by taking over the Army and the Government...
Died. Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter, 47, homicide's tycoon (Murder, Inc.), arch-racketeer; in the electric chair; in Sing Sing Prison, Ossining, N.Y., eight years after his conviction for the murder of clothing trucker Joseph Rosen. Fawnlike. liquid-eyed, Russian-born son of an immigrant herring-peddler, he stole from Manhattan East Side pushcarts almost as soon as he held his first job. Racketeering he regarded as a kind of extension of normal business methods. During the late '20s and early '30s Lepke gradually established himself as violence's master-middleman between labor unions and industry...
Johnny and Grover long ago learned to regard "Magnin" as a highly profitable name. Their mentor was their mother, peddler Isaac Magnin's wife Mary Ann, who founded the business with her own handiwork (children's and bridal clothes) in 1876, and took an intense matriarchal interest in it until she died at 95 last December...