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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other delegates: Bryn Mawr College's Charles G. Fenwick, top-flight expert on political science; Chief Justice Emilio del Toro Cuevas of the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico; President Dan W. Tracy of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Miss Kathryn Lewis, who quit Bryn Mawr to help her famed father John L., with U. A. W.; Rev. John F. O'Hara, president of Notre Dame University; Mrs. Elise F. Musser, who had kept herself before South American eyes by paying a flying visit to the continent last year with a group of U. S. women...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Wrinkle Remover | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

Having been suspended by A. F. of L. after joining C. I. O., and having failed to reunite the warring houses, David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers of America last week quit C. I. O. President David Dubinsky felt that John L. Lewis had done Labor peace great harm by calling a convention in Pittsburgh this week to turn the Committee for Industrial Organization into a permanent "Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Across the Rubicon | 11/21/1938 | See Source »

...characteristics of the two teams, he said, "There is no bad blood. The going is plenty tough, but you don't seem to mind because there is good feeling all around. Generally there is close similarity between the men playing on both teams. They don't know when to quit; they fight till they drop...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Eli David Colwell Predicts Yale Win, or Loss by Large Score Saturday | 11/18/1938 | See Source »

...Merchant Fogler has been at Sewell Avery's right hand throughout the Ward renascence. Although Mr. Avery, who has the step and manner of a man of 50, will presumably continue dictating Montgomery Ward's policies, he last year began retiring from active business life when he quit U. S. Gypsum's presidency, which he had held for 32 years. Said he once to an inquisitive Ward stockholder: "I banana-peeled into this place and then couldn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Banana Peeling | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Also Englad can quit debating about Jutland, for it and perhaps Trafalgar and Blenheim were lost at Munich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 31, 1938 | 10/31/1938 | See Source »

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