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Beginning last November, John Lewis has welded nine A. F. of L. industrial unions, representing a third of the Federation's numerical strength, into the Committee for Industrial Organization. C. I. O.'s program is to let existent craft unions die on the vine, henceforth take into the A. F. of L. only industrial unions. A. F. of L.'s Executive Council issued last Janu ary the first of two orders commanding C. I. O. to disband. Miner Lewis impudently replied in March by offering to put up $500,000 if the A. F. of L. would...
...Chief of Chiefs named Tatagu who proved to be eminently civilized. Long suspecting that there was nothing in the devil-fear to which the islanders had been addicted, Tatagu led a fishing expedition to sea one day, pointedly neglecting to affix to the prow of his boat a vine or "string" which was supposed to placate the devil, bring a good catch. After three fruitless days the tribesmen were about to rebel, when Tatagu spied a large school of the succulent makasi fish. Returning home in triumph, the Chief of Chiefs learned that a son had been born...
...tender vine-leaves, weave a shade...
...answered. Their speeches have all been uttered. Their offices have been vacated by the decree of fate. Soon others will occupy their places. ... It is one of the inexplicable mysteries of life in which one surrenders his peace of mind, his tranquillity of soul and life under his own vine and fig tree for a disappointing, disillusioning ignis fatuus in the morass of public life...
...into difficulties almost at once by mingling on the walls of his church the sayings of Henry George, Count Tolstoy and Jesus Christ. Soon thereafter he leased the church for 99 years to a theatre company, with the result that the old Vine Street Church is now a burlesque house. This deal resulted in Preacher Bigelow's being ousted from the Congregational ministry. But seldom did a season pass that Herbert Bigelow did not make some sort of spectacular news for Cincinnati papers. In 1912 he was president of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, sponsoring initiative, referendum, municipal home rule...