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...Cannon move was adroitly timed to yank a rug from beneath the A.F.L.C.I.O. Textile Workers Union of America, which opens its convention in Charlotte, N.C. this week. The T.W.U.A. has never made much progress in organizing Cannon Mills. At Kannapolis, N.C., the company headquarters, where Cannon contributes heavily toward police, churches, golf course, etc., the union has lately been distributing leaflets pointing out that Southern textile wages, averaging $1.43 an hour, are substantially below the $2.17 average for all U.S. manufacturing. Nationally, the textile industry pays the lowest wages of any basic industry...
Anyone anxious to whip his unpracticed mercenary tendencies into really proven methods of exploitation need only try out for the Business Board. Here he will benefit from an apprenticeship unrivalled even by service with the rug merchants of the Constantinople bazaars...
...even as the Eisenhower Republicans sought a firmer stance, they could feel the rug being pulled out from under them by their political leader. Dwight Eisenhower, after years of insisting that the internal affairs of the Congress were none of his business, had suddenly decided to take a hand. On the record, Ike was merely pleading with Senate Republicans not to get into a ruinous fight. Actually, he was doing everything possible to defeat the Republican Senators who were battling on his behalf...
Outside the secluded stone house near Washington's Rock Creek Park, two "For Sale" signs were spiked forlornly in the lawn. Inside, curious house seekers noted the scarred plaster, peeling paint, grotesquely overstuffed furniture, shabby, faded Oriental rug that had been replaced by a shiny new one during much of the stay of the previous tenant, former Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams...
Tweed & Patches. Teacher Mendenhall is proprietor of the most disorderly office at Yale; at his study, drifted ceiling-high with books in imminent danger of avalanche, one student appeared, asked for an examination paper, got it only after Mendenhall fished it from under a corner of the rug. But Mendenhall's molting-bear disguise hides a man who is no organization-flouting rebel. Since he joined the faculty as a young instructor in 1937-he graduated from the college in 1932, spent three years at Oxford as a Rhodes scholar-the tweed-and-patches professor has risen rapidly, proved...