Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That was good news for William Green, bad (but expected) news for John Lewis. For David Dubinsky, short, energetic, good-natured president of I. L. G. W. U., it was a good way of saying where, in his opinion, lay the responsibility for labor's split. Nobody in the labor movement doubted that I. L. G. W. U.'s 250,000 would follow President Dubinsky back into A. F. of L., just as they had followed him out of it into C. I. O. They stayed in line behind him when, last year, C. I. O. set itself...
...last week Columnist Westbrook Pegler, fresh from his investigations of California Ham & Eggery, visited the office of State's Attorney Thomas J. Courtney in Chicago. What he found in the records there made meat for two columns about meaty William ("Sweet Willie") Bioff, the boss of A. F. of L. labor in Hollywood studios and a potent figure in the U. S. entertainment industry. Sum of Columnist Pegler's findings was that in 1922 Willie Bioff was convicted of pandering, got a six-month jail sentence and $300 fine, lost an appeal, served only eight days...
...hobnobs with a Hollywood plutocrat. His dealings with Producer Joe Schenck were the subject of a court investigation last May, are under scrutiny of the U. S. Department of Justice. Said Mr. Schenck last week, replying to Willie Bioff's talk about a plot: "In the case of William Bioff, the producers . . . are not responsible directly or indirectly . . . for his present personal predicament. . . . They resent the imputation that they would resort to any such methods...
From the News Board have been chosen two more Executive officers, William W. Tyng '41, as Executive Editor succeeding Charles N. Pollak II '40, and D. Donald Peddie '41 in a now and permanent Senior post as Sports Editor. Tyng is from Leverett and Darien, Conn.; Peddie lives in Lowell House and Minneapolis...
Those who were finally elected from the forty-one candidates starting in the competition are Robert G. Axtell of Helworthy Hall: John M. Bullitt, of Matthews Hall: Evan Calkins of Holworthy Hall: Maxwell Kaufer, of Grays Hall: Norman Meyer, of Waltham; William W. Piuney, of Apley Court: F. Harrison Poole, of grays Hall: William McNKand, Jr., of Grays Hall: John E. Sawhill of Weld Hall, and Robert F. Sherwood, of Wiggisworth Hall...