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Secretary of State Dean Acheson, Dr. Alfred Kinsey, Trygve Lie, secretary-general of the U.N., Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, General George C. Marshall, and Walter Reuther, are among speakers invited to participate in Law School Forums for the rest of the year, the Forum announced yesterday...
...discussion of "How Can We Mitigate Industrial Strikes" is billed for January 30. The Forum has invited Reuther, new head of the CIO; Fred Hartley, co-author of the Taft-Hartley Law; and Martin Durkin, newly-appointed Secretary of Labor. No replies have been received yet, however...
Personality: White-haired and warmly blue-eyed, Wilson (5 ft. 10 in.) is quiet and reserved, speaks slowly (with a Midwestern twang), thinks fast, although he is not given to snap decisions. He once accepted a challenge by fast-talking Walter Reuther to a public debate, argued him to a draw. In his office he works between two desks with several briefcases at his feet and a couple of phones at his elbow. Wilson knows every part of the G.M. empire, often unexpectedly calls a junior executive in outlying plants. He works around the clock, forgetting the time, goes home...
...fending factions were headed by Allan S. Haywood, the CIO's executive vice-president, and 45-year-old Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers, the CIO's largest union...
Neither Haywood, Reuther nor anyone else in sight has the stature or wisdom of Phil Murray. By coincidence, both Harry Truman and Ben Fairless used the same term in eulogizing Murray this week. They called him a "Christian Gentleman," a hard term to earn in the vortex of a social storm...