Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...McGrady would have been flying 2,500 miles across country to Tampa, Fla. to act as peacemaker in Labor's biggest internal struggle of the generation. At Tampa this week the A. F. of L. holds its annual convention, and the old leaders, heirs of the late Samuel Gompers, headed by President William Green, were preparing finally to expel the insurgent new "industrial" unions headed by John L. Lewis and a corps of aggressive young associates. Since the Federation's Executive Council suspended ten unions of the Committee for Industrial Organization (TIME, Sept. 14 et ante), that momentous...
...political career also began early, as a member of Boston's Common Council and of the Massachusetts Legislature. After the War, Samuel Gompers called him to Washington to mix labor and politics as a lobbyist for the A. F. of L. He proved an expert at it, affable, friendly, fair, efficient. He systematically canvassed every member of Congress, treated them to persuasion but not to parties, being himself a teetotaler, having joined in youth the St. Peter & St. Paul Total Abstinence Society...
...Robert M. Meyers '38, Newark, New Jersey; Lionel F. Miller, Jr. '37, Saranac Lake, New York; Leonard K. Nash '39, New York City; Walter P. Neumann '39, New Britain, Connecticut; John Nevins '39, New York City; John W. Otvos '39, New York City; Joseph A. Rich '38, Hazardville, Connecticut; Samuel Ritvo '33, Hartford, Connecticut; Theodore P. Robie '33, Riverdale, New York...
Furniture, rugs and art of Mrs. Samuel Insull and the late Mrs. Samuel Insull Jr., wife and daughter-in-law of Chicago's onetime utility pope, were auctioned in a four-day sale in Manhattan...
Robert E. Wernick '38; Frank C. Wheelock, Jr. '39; William A. Whitcraft, Jr. '39; Frank S. White, Jr. '39; Abraham D. Whitman '37; John W. Whittlesey '37; Sumner Willard '37; Robert A. Williams '37; Samuel D. Winisky '38; Donald T. Wood '37; Norman Zamcheck '39; Morris Zief...