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...Connelly, Arthur Kober and F.P.A., both are passionate regulars in that famed weekly gathering of cutthroat bonhomie that first achieved fame as the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. This poker game, which Heywood Broun once asked to be kept going till 10 a.m., "so I can make my picket line," and which has been known to run for 33 hours,* is for Grouse "the most refreshing mental bath I can get." The club has a West Coast "branch," and "with luck and a plane," say Lindsay & Grouse, "we can make both games the same week...
Outside the conference hall (in the Department of Labor Building) uninvited independent unions had thrown up a picket line with banners reading: "We challenge Lewis, Murray and Green to cross this picket line." Phil Murray and Bill Green sneaked in a side entrance. Lewis grunted, tossed his head and marched right on past the signs...
...trouble started on Friday, when Ford's Canadian management asked police to escort 35 guards through the picket lines ''to safeguard machinery." Eleven policemen formed a wedge, rammed into the lines. The pickets stood firm. Fists flew. The police discreetly retired...
...workers, in no mood to modify their demands for a closed shop and a dues checkoff, all this was a signal to prepare for a fight. Picket lines at each of the sprawling plant's 17 gates grew longer, thicker, more sullen. On Monday, 8,500 additional workers-from Windsor's Chrysler, Gar Wood, Kelsey Wheel and some 20 other smaller plants, walked out in sympathy. Pickets began erecting street barricades (hundreds of autos, bumper to jumper...
With little rest Pat labored on, convoying ships off Australia, operating in the "Slot," seeing the tide of war turn at last as reinforcements began to arrive from a nation which had tardily remembered its Navy. She fought at Saipan and Tinian. She was a picket ship. She was fire support. She was mobile 5-in. artillery steaming inshore against Jap pillboxes. She operated at Guam and later at Palau and later with Halsey in the second Battle of the Philippines...