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...late Chief Justice of the Washington Supreme Court, veteran of the brave but futile U. S. Siberian Expeditionary Force of 1918. Legionnaire Chadwick was chosen because: 1) in calibre he was considered several cuts above some of his recent predecessors; 2) The Kingmakers thought his selection would finally squelch the Legion's No. 1 Pretender and rebel, Detroit's Corporation Counsel Raymond J. Kelley. Last week Pretender Kelley and every other rival candidate withdrew without firing a word. With King Chadwick safely made, the serious minority at the convention then got down to their No. 2 problem: neutrality...
Taking heart, 27 department store operators got together to squelch union demands for a 35-hour week. Negotiations also stalled between unions and chain grocery store operators on the same issue. When the potent Waterfront Employers Association indicated it would adopt a strong line when its members' contracts with C.I.O. longshoremen expire September 30, gloomy San Franciscans (already faced with a shortage of drugs and liquor by the warehouse shutdown) began reminiscing about the 1934 General Strike...
...Dewey insisted that the State had no "star witness," but the highlight of his Wigwam party was expected to be Witness Dixie Davis, chief counsel for the racket. To squelch insinuations that Lawyer Davis had been blandished into turning State's evidence by permits to leave jail and visit his red-headed friend, Showgirl Hope Dare. District Attorney Dewey declared: "He got a change of clothes. . . . He had his clothes there. . . . There were two detectives and the mother of Miss Dare present, so that anybody who has been reveling in ideas that the District Attorney was conniving at adultery...
...Chicago delegation, biggest at the convention, came determined to squelch the left-wing New York local. But no squelching was done. Opening the meeting, President Jerome Davis earnestly pleaded: "One of the greatest tasks confronting our federation is how to build unity with all the forces that are opposing dictatorship and fascism. We must do our utmost to make unity the keynote of our present convention." The rest of the 500 delegates proceeded to support Chicago's resolutions, condemn the Kelly-Nash machine's "interference" with Chicago's schools, elect two Chicagoans to the executive council. They...
...Henry A. Wallace is "I was astonished." Last week, Secretary Wallace "was astonished at the number of speculative accounts controlled by so-called commodity counselors or 'tipsters.' " His astonishment was conveyed in a letter to a unique Washington meeting that marked the opening of a campaign to squelch such tipsters. Present were officers from most of the important...