Word: randolphs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coldblooded murder" was Randolph Churchill's phrase for the execution of the top Nazis. Winston's far-flinging lecturer-son was now talking in Australia. "They were not hanged for starting the war but for losing it," he pursued. "If we tried the starters, why not put Stalin in the dock?" But he was not afraid of the Russians, said Randolph. "The people who scare me are the British and Americans, who . . . are now letting all they won slip through their butter-fingers...
...Right Not to Work. The news came from Cleveland's sweltering Public Hall, where the I.T.U. last week held its 89th national convention. Mild-eyed President Woodruff Randolph,*55, laid the new policy on the line: the union would obey the letter of the law, but it would as soon give up the ghost as the closed shop it had won from the bulk of the U.S. press (some exceptions: the open-shop Los Angeles Times, the Philadelphia Bulletin, John H. Perry's Florida chain...
...Randolph earnestly counseled "patience and more patience" to avoid strikes. He carefully coached the delegates on how to act if a strike were called: "No law says you must tell the employer why you are striking. You can strike for any reason at all, or for no reason at all. . . . We only want to do what we have been doing for more than 100 years. We can assure [employers] that we will do what comes naturally...
...lapse did not escape the eye of William Randolph Hearst, who seldom waits for a paper to get into trouble before jacking it up. A fortnight ago, in the wake of the merger of the tabloid Chicago Times with Marshall Field's Sun (TIME, Aug. 4), a shakeup hit the Herald's top brass. Chicago-trained, cigar-chomping George Ashley De Witt came on from Washington as executive editor-the job once held by loud Lou Ruppel, who got in bad with the Chief by branding Chicago "Dirty Shirt Town." Drawling Lou Shainmark came back from the Washington...
...William Randolph Hearst's personal shopping list was glommed some years ago by a literary visitor, and the gossip finally reached the Saturday Review of Literature. The list read: "1 pair shoelaces, 1 croup kettle, 2 hippopotami...