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...long time the Trotskyite mice* dominated the cat-runs of Minnesota labor. Their tiny but concentrated strength lay in the Minneapolis teamsters' Local 544, whose chief mouse was lean, somber Vincent Dunne. Last summer, Dunne & union scuttled from A.F. of L., holed in with C.I.O. (TIME, July 7). Then their trouble began...
...Vincent Dunne & friends once visited Trotsky in Mexico. Dunne's union had a record of leading violent strikes. Local 544 engaged in military drills and target practice...
...five weeks a Federal jury of farmers, laborers, merchants and a janitor's wife listened to revolutionary manifestoes and such, goggled at the mouse-dropping evidence. Vincent Dunne's brother, one of the defendants, committed suicide. Five others were finally let off by the judge. Of the remaining 23, the jury exonerated all of sedition, convicted 18 of conspiring to arouse insubordination in Army and Navy...
From Clare Boothe and Vincent Sheean over WOR-Mutual that evening came sober talk of the U.S. task. Said Sheean: "Shall we pretend, as I have heard so-called experts pretend today on the radio, that this thing is easy? . . . Let us get ready for a series of shocks...
...Undefeated, untied Duquesne, pride of Pittsburgh, should be chosen for the Sugar, Cotton or Orange Bowl-even though its opponents this season included such minor-leaguers as Waynesburg, Niagara, Manhattan, St. Vincent and Villanova...