Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wolchok and his organizing director, an oldtime Socialist named Jack Altman, had to spend a good deal of their time fighting the Communist Party. Last year, Altman organized a trade union group in New York to fight the Communists who dominated the Greater New York C.I.O. Council. At that time, Murray was pussyfooting around the Communist-C.I.O. situation. Instead of supporting Altman, Murray ordered him to disband his anti-Red group. Meanwhile, the Communists in hapless Sam Wolchok's union went their own defiant way; one Red local after another seceded...
...very many or for very long. The Amalgamated has a membership of 375,000, a treasury of $6,000,000, and a hustling set of hard-nosed organizers. For the Amalgamated's president, spade-bearded Jacob Potofsky, Russian-born but no Communist, an elegant old warhorse of trade unionism, it was a fine opportunity. An estimated 6,000,000 store workers in the U.S. are still unorganized...
...shop. Any store contains enough perfume, of various and assorted smells, to drown in, and the salesgirls will be happy to spray you with drams of it. But unless you know your girls taste in scents, stay away from heavy, dramatic perfumes and pick light brands--or she may trade it to her roommate for a chocolate bar without nuts...
...radio. On Sunday nights he talks over ABC to 10 million people, for a weekly wage of $5,000 plus all the Lee hats (his sponsor) that he wants. His sponsors claim 77% accuracy for the predictions which, along with his disclosures, are his stock in trade. The batting average means little: "We can always boost it," a staffer explains candidly, "by predicting things like tomorrow will be Monday...
Since Babe Ruth tore his finger on some chicken wire 17 years ago, at least 5,000 big leaguers have visited baseball's two surgical meccas-St. Louis and Baltimore. Doc Hyland, a good-natured, husky 60, gets all the St. Louis trade, and a lot of Eastern clients besides. In Baltimore, the man to see is testy, trim Dr. George Bennett, a famed orthopedic surgeon and a rabid baseball fan, like Hyland. Dr. Bennett's most recent patient: Joe DiMaggio, who walked out of Johns Hopkins hospital on crutches last week after having a spur cut from...