Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With such big bold words last week in Chicago, Alexander Fell Whitney, the professorial president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, got his fellow workers to join the four other big railroad operating unions to call for a general strike vote among their 350,000 members...
...strike, but a strike threat against the Government, or at least against its present Administration, was precisely what Alexander Whitney and the railroad unioneers wanted. Ten months ago, mindful that many war-plant workers were making more money than the highly skilled railroad men, the five unions had asked for a minimum $3-a-day wage increase. A special Government Railroad Labor panel, considering the case from every angle, after an interminable length of time gave them 4? an hour-32? a day-instead. Economic Stabilizer Fred M. Vinson hurriedly approved the raise. But the unions cried "Insult," turned...
Exploded Alexander Whitney: "This stalling . . . has made the settlement of railway wage disputes a farce." More & more blasts came; not since John Lewis had there been such high, hot talk by labor against the Administration...
...American Scene was under ludicrous attack again last week. Cartoonist Whitney Darrow Jr., for ten years a comic ornament to The New Yorker, published his first collection of drawings, You're Sitting on my Eyelashes (Random House; $2.50). In the title cartoon a raucously artificial brunette addressed a startled gentleman who had just taken her seat at the movies...
...Whitney Darrow Jr., a thin, neat, nervous young man of 34, is the son of a vice president of Charles Scribner's Sons. The cartoonist went to Princeton ('31), there art-edited the Princeton Tiger. He sold his first drawings to Judge, College Humor and the old Life. After college he studied at Manhattan's famed Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton. Says Darrow of this training: "He taught me how to roll Bull Durham cigarets." Darrow's first New Yorker appearance was a study of two girl nudists admiring a male fellow nudist: "Last...