Word: william
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Robin Lampson, author of the recently published life of General William Gorgas entitled Death Loses a Pair of Wings, describes in a recent issue of the California Monthly (alumni magazine) his phenomenal good fortune in receiving 528 responses to a letter published in TIME, in which he requested readers who had information on General Gorgas to communicate with...
Another Eleanor Roosevelt story came via Walter Winchell, who reported that William Allen White had thus inscribed a gift copy of Mrs. Roosevelt's autobiography (This Is My Story), "This is a swell story of the wisest, kindest, dearest, smartest First Lady I have ever known, and my candidate for Franklin's third term...
...Mirrors. In The Netherland Plaza Hotel's gaudy, marbled Hall of Mirrors, A. F. of L. President William Green convened some 500 delegates for preliminaries to the second, working week of their convention. By reflection from the glassy walls, the delegates saw themselves for what they were: mostly middleaged, fattening, "safe" gentlemen with good cigars. Any businessman would have been at home with them. For they were businessmen who had made, and proposed to preserve, careers in unionism. From them and from their typical President Green came no radical proposals, no departures from the prime strategy...
...There is not the remotest prospect of peace in the near future," declared William Y. Elliott, professor of Government, in a recent interview. He did, though, allow for two possibilities of peace if the European situation were to change radically...
CINCINNATI, Ohio--William Green, who rose from the coal mines of Ohio to leadership of 4,000,000 craft union workers, today was elected President of the American Federation of Labor for his 16th consecutive term...