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...nightclub, working in three Chicago laundries. Three years ago a lawyer named Benjamin E. Cohen, attorney for a bankrupt Chicago laundry workers' union, asked Donovan why he didn't organize the city's 18,000 laundry workers. Bill went back to his first love with such vigor that within a few months his local (No. 46) had a signed contract with the 137 members of the Chicago Laundry Owners Association, which does 85% of Chicago's home laundry for some $29,000,000 a year...
...famed Communist Manifesto of Marx and Engels. But it had already died of talk. The Second International (founded in Paris in 1889) for which Lenin and Trotsky worked was a loose association of national labor organizations and Socialist parties, of which the Russian parties had the most revolutionary vigor...
...much stronger long-run position, yet in more urgent need of immediate assistance" than German invasion talk led the U. S. to believe. It urged the sale of U. S. war equipment to Britain and added "We believe the country will be behind a policy of boldness and vigor...
...delegate brought a dash of vigor and verve along with him. At otherwise abortive hearings on the Party platform (to all intents it was written at the White House), San Antonio's gobliny Mayor Maury Maverick prescribed for the Democratic Party "that aggressive spirit which has made it great." He evoked the Mavericks who pioneered in Texas: "They came praying to God and shootin' Indians. That's the way this country was built and it's the way it's got to be kept alive." One night-Maury Maverick continued-his wife found him praying...
Last week, five days after officially taking office as A. F. of M. president, Jimmie Petrillo was laying about him with Chicago vigor. In an attempt to bring two radio stations to heel, he cracked the whip over the three major networks. The stations were St. Paul's KSTP (NBC affiliate), Richmond's WRVA (CBS). Each was embroiled in a local musicians' strike, because it declined to pay a minimum yearly sum, or guarantee a minimum number of jobs, to local musicians, whether needed...