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...book form. By last week, the jackpot began to turn out wooden nickels. Simon & Schuster, which had contracted to publish the book, dropped the project. Reason: three of Collier's star "correspondents" in the war-Playwright Robert E. Sherwood, CBS Commentator Edward R. Murrow and U.A.W. President Walter Reuther-had decided that they didn't want their articles reprinted...
Lined up on the same side of a Washington table last week were some strange partners. The C.I.O. Autoworkers' Boss Walter Reuther and other auto-union leaders sat with General Motors' President Charles E. (for Erwin) Wilson, Michigan's Governor Mennen Williams and top auto executives. Across the table sat mobilization Directors Charles Edward Wilson and Manly Fleischmann. The automen, union officials and governor had teamed up to protest cutbacks in auto production...
...trouble is that not enough defense orders have yet come through to take up the slack in the auto industry. Furthermore, much of the industry's defense work is done in plants outside Detroit. Walter Reuther argued that mobilizers should let the industry turn out 1,000,000 cars a quarter until fall. By then, he thought, there would be enough defense work so that drastic auto cuts could be made. Now, said Reuther, the auto industry is being unfairly treated in its low allotments of copper, steel and other scarce metals. Said he angrily, and somewhat fatuously...
Representative Richard A. Reuther (D-Williamstown) charged that the State Board has overridden local boards and local zoning laws. Officials of Lexington, Newton, and Billerica also lodged complaints against the A.B.C. Representative James C. Bayley (R-Boston) meanwhile filed a bill calling for a seven-man commission to carry on an investigation and report on the A.B.C...
...Reuther demanded that actions of the A.B.C. be investigated in the light of recent complaints, while Bayley's bill would allow local boards to appeal directly to the Superior Court and not have to appeal to the A.B.C. itself, as the present law stipulates...