Word: teamsters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Iowa last week had cause to review its official policy of not giving birth control advice to families on Relief. Seven years ago John Slattery, 64-year-old teamster, met a 17-year-old girl in the slums of Omaha. They went to Kansas, got married, moved into a tar-paper shack in Council Bluffs. There they produced three daughters, who were placed on arrival in the city orphanage. Month ago, Mrs. Slattery, robust but not brilliant, bore twin daughters. Her jobless husband, now 71, announced himself still fit for a day's work, claimed he was looking...
...Cross units. The first of the seven State Processions converging on St. Paul's Cathedral for the Silver Jubilee Service was that of Speaker of the House of Commons, Captain Edward FitzRoy. the ancient Speaker's Coach being pulled by brewery horses driven by a brewery teamster arrayed for this one day in blue plush breeches, buff coat, full-bottomed wig, tricorn...
...followers of Senator Hiram Johnson he is the "most effective" Progressive. Most loyal of friends, he is the bitterest, most remorseless of enemies. Thirty years ago he burst upon San Francisco as "Windy Jack," a noisy brilliant, picturesque young hoodlum reporter with the vocabulary and manners of his teamster days in Arizona. Little about his behavior suggested that he was born of gentlefolk in New York 49 years ago properly educated in New Jersey. After he had been hired, fired, rehired on various San Francisco newspapers, the skyrocket of Jack Neylan's career was touched off in 1910 when...
Lawyer & Liberalism. Friends of his "Windy Jack" days do not know quite what to make of Lawyer John Francis Neylan who lives in luxury among San Francisco's millionaires but who retains the simple bluntness of the Arizona teamster; who likes to haggle with dealers over fine books; who plays golf every Wednesday afternoon at Menlo Country Club or at Burlingame; who lunches at the Palace Hotel's "cabinet table" with local bigwigs; who is a regent of the University of California; who helped Hiram Johnson drive the Southern Pacific Railroad out of power 25 years...
...Hearstpapers and rivals alike followed a uniform editorial policy of attacking the strikers as "revolutionists." During the fight General Hugh Johnson arrived on the scene, began loudly to lecture the publishers on the rights of Labor. When the ex-cavalryman had reached the height of his oratory, the ex-teamster roared between glittering teeth: "I do the shouting in this part of the country, General! You may outargue me but you can't outshout me in my own hills!" General Johnson subsided, departed muttering: "This is the first time I ever ran up against a newspaper oligarchy...