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...With a whoop and a holler, last week the Communists crawled out of the walls, where they had been lying low since Hitler marched into Russia, and took over the C.I.O. electrical workers union. By the time the hollering ended, electricians had a new president who would probably know better than to speak out against Reds as his predecessor had; and nobody had any doubts left that the Communists' fight to dominate U.S. labor would still be tough and ruthless...
...American ear, organized cheering sounds right at football games, wrong at baseball games. Nevertheless, this week will see the first organized cheering section in a major-league ball park: at a Dodger-Giant game at Ebbets Field, 6,000 members of Brooklyn's Knothole Gang (schoolboy fans) will whoop it up for the dear old Dodgers. Cheerleaders: the "Reg'lar Fellers" kids (Puddin'head, Wash Jones, Jimmy Dugan and his dopey cousin Dinky), comic-strip radio characters...
...whoop it up to the tune of 20 or 30 billions of dollars for the good-neighbor policy and hemisphere defense, but refuse to buy a little beef from the Argentine...
Instigator of these dark proceedings was big, crusading Dorothy Donnell, chief of the radio division of the Department of Justice's Immigration Service. Interested was many a Justice bigwig in having Valtin whoop it up for democracy. Since he lacked the citizenship necessary to appear on Miss Donnell's Government-sponsored I'm An American show, she persuaded him to go on for WOL, wrote a script for the occasion. Neither WOL nor MBS, its network, gave any publicity to the Valtin program. But long-nosed Manhattan Columnist Leonard Lyons sniffed out the news. Forthwith Washington began...
...Lackawanna plant, workers accepted the terms with a whoop, convinced that the settlement was a triumph for S. W. O. C. Said Van A. Bittner, regional director and chief organizer of the strike: "This is . . . the first time on a large scale that our union has been able to get any sort of agreement from Bethlehem. . . .'' No one believed that Bethlehem had surrendered, but it was a notable truce. And for the time at least, Knudsenhillman had averted what might have been a bloody and disastrous battle on the defense industry's most vital front. Thirty-nine...