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...Woll" he said dreamily, "I call her Scummy and she calls me Louse, but we may not be married for a few years. --The New Yorker...
Bright Spot of the convention was the report of Matthew Woll, favorite colleague of the late great Samuel Gompers, showing that his Union Labor Life Insurance Co. (sponsored by the A. F. of L.), had recorded an 18% increase in business last year...
...light hearted manner in which foreign criticism is received in the land of the Soviets offers a pleasing contrast to the conduct of must nations under similar circumstances. Following the attacks of Representative Fish and Matthew Woll on Red institutions, the Moscow Pravda has recently made the facetious suggestion that America equip a Columbus expedition with caravels in order to find out the truth about the Soviet...
...Received a petition that he submit U. S. membership in the World Court to the Senate for ratification. Among many notable petitioners were: John Joseph Pershing, Julius H. Barnes, Roy Wilson Howard, Felix M. Warburg, Jane Addams, Newton Diehl Baker, Seward Prosser, Matthew Woll, Fred John Fisher, Edward A. Filene, Thomas Lincoln Chadbourne, Herbert Bayard Swope, Silas Hardy Strawn, Myron Charles Taylor, Admiral William Sowden Sims, Alfred Pritchard Sloan...
Loudest Voice. Matthew Woll, third vice president of the American Federation of Labor, raised the loudest voice in favor of an embargo against all Soviet goods. Claiming to represent 500,000 workmen as the head of the Wage Earners Protective Association, he talked of invoking a similar embargo against convict-made goods from Fascist Italy. His language became so intemperate that William Green, president of the A. F. of L., was forced to disavow him as a spokesman for that organization...