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...Weir was willing to consent to having "non-employes' " names on the ballots, so that A. F. of L.'s Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers Union delegates might be eligible, but he drew the line at voting "ex-employes." He also refused to abandon the secret ballot in favor of the petition system. Deeming that such procedure rules would give outside A. F. of L. men undue advantage, he brusquely notified the Board: "We must consider any arrangement with you terminated...
...Jewish campaign shall end (TiME, Nov. 13 et ante). Last week found Boycotter Untermyer a passenger on the cruising S. S. Monarch of Bermuda. Down to the dining saloon he prowled to inspect arrangements for the Captain's dinner. To his horror he found paper caps, paper flowers, tin rattles, fish horns, surprise crackers, rolls of confetti, all stamped "Made in Germany...
Before he got out of school in his home town of Uddevalla, Axel Leonard Wenner-Gren had a shrewd eye for the main chance. Swedish legend relates how at the age of nine he developed a thriving business in baskets and ash trays woven from tin strips dumped outside herring canneries, how he organized his playmates to make and sell his product, how he thrashed them when their salesmanship was poor. Son of a Swedish count, he later worked in Gothenburg but, restless and energetic, went to Berlin to learn big business. Later, like Ivar Kreuger, he worked and traveled...
...take off the skin. In over 30 years of shark-hunting off Hawaii, the U. S., Africa, the West Indies, Australia, Captain William E. ("Sharky Bill") Young has learned not to be surprised at anything he finds when he rips open a shark's belly. He has discovered tin cans, horses' hoofs, a small pig, bottles, parts of other sharks. Once, in a shark caught off Big Pine Key, Fla., he found a man's arm, six pieces of human flesh and a square of cloth from a blue serge coat...
While Bourneuf easily wins top rating, the other members of the cast vary upward from adequate to excellent. But the Stagers are to be complimented more for their fidelity tin recreating the atmosphere of the time with painstaking attention to costuming and other stage business than for their acting...