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...last October that they would rather join the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers than the A.F.L.'s International Association of Machinists. During the campaign I.A.M. representatives charged that the U.A.W. was "communistic." In reply, U.A.W. men two days before election, began to distribute copies of a purported telegram in which I.A.M. President Al Hayes, praised C.I O. President Walter Reuther for speareading "the move to drive the Communists from labor organizations" and expressed his regret that "certain of our [I.A.M.] representatives ... are guilty of smearing your great union U.A.W.-C.I.O." The telegram, the NLRB found, was a fraud...
Glum and pessimistic, United Fruit Co. officials in Boston and Guatemala City waited last week to see what Guatemala proposed to pay for 233,973 acres of company land at Tiquisate, expropriated by the land-reforming government. A curt official telegram to Almyr Lake Bump, the U.S.-owned firm's Guatemala manager, finally brought the answer: $594,572, or $2.54 an acre-and that in 25-year, 3% government bonds. The company's unofficial valuation: $11.5 million. "The measure constitutes a heavy blow to the voracious imperialist company," gloated the Communist weekly Octubre. "Practically confiscation," snorted United Fruit...
Cleve packed the sturgeon in ice and shipped it off to Yeovil to Fishmonger Tom Moore, who in turn earmarked it for a local hotel. After these practical matters had been attended to, Cleve bethought himself of form, and sent a telegram offering the fish to the Queen. Next day the startling reply came back from Sandringham, where the Queen was vacationing. "Your very kind offer accepted. Please send fish to comptroller...
...Clarksburg, W.Va. (pop. 32,000), where the morning Exponent (circ. 15,381) and evening Telegram (circ. 24,729) have been the only dailies in town for 50 years, Publisher Cecil B. Highland, 76, rules with an iron hand. The names of local citizens who displease Highland are banned from his papers, even though some hold public office. He has fought daylight saving time, a public sewage-disposal project, and turned down ads for a community project to raise money for the widow of a local hero who had tried to save three boys from drowning. By his own peculiar rules...
...Whitney's company, set up to "help stimulate free enterprise" with new projects, quickly ran head-on into Publisher Highland. One paper reported that "strangers" and "outsiders" wanted to string "dangerous" overhead lines into town. "DANGER TO LIFE, PROPERTY COULD COME FROM CABLE," said a headline in the Telegram, over a story suggesting that TV cables could kill children and burn Clarksburg homes. As compensation to parents, "cash would be used to replace [the] child," said the story. A picture of an ugly fire-control tower was described as a TV tower, and the papers pointed out that every...