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...Pipes of Peace. Next day, representatives of two groups which had favored Democrat Adlai Stevenson during the campaign came in to smoke the peace pipe. First in were ten C.I.O. leaders; when the hour-long talk was over, C.I.O. Secretary-Treasurer James Carey cormmended Ike for a "very intelligent discussion" of the Taft-Hartley Act, then added with conscious irony that ever since its establishment the C.I.O. had enjoyed good relations with the occupant of the White House and that it hoped to continue on the same footing. (Only occupants of the White House since the C.I.O.'s birth...
...this week Ike had rounded out his full Cabinet. The three final appointments: Michigan's Arthur Summerfield, chairman of the "Republican National Committee, to be Postmaster General; Boston's Sinclair Weeks, Republican finance chairman, to be Secretary of Commerce; President Martin Durkin of the A.F.L. Plumbers and Pipe Fitters Union to be Secretary of Labor (see THE NEW ADMINISTRATION...
MARTIN P. DURKIN, 58, president of the A.F.L. Plumbers & Pipe Fitters...
Career: Like the A.F.L.'s new boss (see Labor), he got his start in union politics as a business agent for the Plumbers & Pipe Fitters (with Chicago's Local 597, the union's largest). He resigned in 1933, after twelve years, to take an appointment from Illinois' Governor Henry Horner as state director of labor. During the next, eight years, he successfully pushed through legislation setting up unemployment compensation, a state employment service, a state conciliation & mediation service. In 1941, he resigned, moved to Washington to become secretary-treasurer of the union (225,000 members...
...drillers had driven a three-cone rotary rock-bit deeper & deeper into the earth of Osborn's farm. The rig's platform throbbed with the clanking rumble of a diesel engine spinning the drill. As the drill bit down into the earth, new lengths of 60-ft. pipe were threaded on to join the mile-and-a-half of pipe already whirling below ground in a single, continuous column. At 8,663 ft. the drilling was stopped, the drill pulled out. Hurriedly the hole was cased with seven-inch pipe and capped. Then, when all was ready...