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...Archeologist Benjamin Dean Meritt is deciphering 6,000 pre-Christian Greek inscriptions. Said suave, barrel-chested North Carolinian Meritt: "Some are right interesting." For 1945 publication, he and Assistant, W. Kendrick Pritchett (now in the Army) have planned a who's who of some 30,000 Athenians mentioned in Meritt's collected inscriptions. Meritt is proud of U.S. archeology, says the long-dominant German variety has declined...
...Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union, powerful, expanding (after a sorry period of scandals in its early organizing days) and affiliated with Bill Hutcheson's rich Carpenters and Joiners. C. I. O.'s is the International Woodworkers of America, organized in 1937 by Harold Pritchett, a Canadian, aggressive left-winger and Northwest ally of Harry Bridges. So fierce were the jurisdictional fights between these two unions that in one three-month period 900 men went to the hospitals as a result of inter-union battles. Presently the C. I. O. union split again. An opposition group, damning Pritchett...
...anti-Pritchett locals, agreed to joint action to win a general 7½?-an-hour increase...
Principal Crazy stockholder is thin-faced, black-eyed, ministerial Carr Pritchett Collins, chairman of the board and longtime crony of Texas' hillbilly Governor Wilbert Lee ("Pass the biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel. With Brother Hal Houston Collins, president of Crazy, Stockholder Carr has a strong grip on Texas politics. Accredited with having helped start O'Daniel's Hillbilly Flour Co., Carr helped run the Governor's campaign, remains a close adviser, is sometimes called the power behind the throne. Glib Radiorator Hal plugs Crazy products and O'Daniel doctrine over company-sponsored broadcasts...
...Oregon, with first or second generation Finns, it looked as if Russia's invasion might influence labor politics. Voting was on in the potent International Woodworkers of America, with a battle revolving around President Harold Pritchett, able left-winger, ally of Harry Bridges, and like Bridges threatened with deportation. Stridently anti-Communist is the opposition in Portland, Ore. Because I.W.A.'s members are scattered in remote logging camps, balloting takes a month. There were only three days of voting left when the Russian invasion began, but out of the northwest camps to Portland's anti-Pritchett headquarters...