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Even George Berry's enemies admit that everything about him is big. He has been president since 1907 of the International Printing Pressmen & Assistants' Union of North America (50,000 members). He owns the biggest color-label printing plant in the U. S., at Rogersville, Tenn., and outside Rogersville the biggest farm in the Southeast (30,000 acres). It was thus a foregone conclusion that when George Berry began buying up mineral leases among farmers in the area later flooded by the TVA's Norris Dam, the marble he was looking for would turn...
Angrily denying that he had ever seen the "affidavits" and banging his fist in rage over Lawyer Ziegler's attempts to read into tne record an excerpt from a celebrated 1921 Pressmen's Union dispute in which he & the union directors were charged with misappropriating funds, Senator Berry cried: "Why don't you hit above the belt...
...small measure by the presence of so many reporters and photographers. He got no farther than the anteroom, however, for the facial reaction of the conferring labor-men was enough to convince their aides that the Senator, though still the head of the A. F. of L.'s pressmen's union, was not welcome in the inner sanctum, and he was soon sent...
...wears a Buster Brown tie and is also president of I. L. G. W. U.'s Manhattan dressmakers' Local 89, the largest (42,000 members) union local in the world. Treasurer is Andrew Armstrong, vice president of the A. F. of L.'s well-intrenched Printing Pressmen's Union. Treasurer Armstrong's money raising devices are a 10? annual levy per member on the affiliated unions, a 50? annual levy per member on district organizations. An-other $70,000 was raised for A. L. P. by a Citizen's Finance Committee headed by liberal...
...troubles were not over. At his hotel he found many messages. A big batch of them from labor unions urged the appointment of that eminent owner of a 30,000-acre Tennessee farm and hanger-on of the New Deal, Major George Leonard Berry, president of the International Pressmen's Union and Franklin D. Roosevelt's "Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation." Another batch of telegrams favored Mr. McReynolds and, strangely, many of them came not from Tennessee but from Manhattan. If Governor Browning wondered why, friends in Washington soon told him. Representative Sol Bloom, who five years...