Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when A.F.L. Founder Samuel Gompers died, aged 74, after 38 years in the federation's presidency, his heir-expectant was Matthew Woll of the Engravers' Union. But wing-collared Matt Woll was too hidebound a craft unionist for John L. Lewis, then as now president of the United Mine Workers. Lewis knew that he had no chance himself and, besides, he hoped to be U.S. Secretary of Labor in President Coolidge's Cabinet. He put forward the most conservative of his fellow mine union officials, Bill Green, and Green was elected...
...SAMUEL R. SIMPSON, 44, Methodist; killed in action on Nov. 30, 1950, while serving with the 2nd Infantry Division...
Hans Christian Andersen (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is an unusual cinebiography in that it candidly disclaims having anything to do with the facts of its subject's life. A foreword to the picture announces: "Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story of his life, but a fairy tale about this great spinner of fairy tales...
...attempted to cut from his will the two $1,000 bequests to the Samuel Adams School for Social Studies in Boston and the International Labor Defense of New York...
Despite his present-day pose of calm equanimity, John was once the focal point of a hot controversy. When, on Commencement Day in 1883, General Samuel J. Bridges donated a fund for the erection of a statue to John Harvard's memory, the inevitable question was raised: How does one make a statue of the chap when one doesn't know what he looks like...