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...student cannot divorce himself from politics merely because be live in an academic atmosphere. Allon M. Woodruff said last night in urging college students to take an active part in politics. Woodruff spoke before a meeting of the local Citizenship Clearing House at the signet Society last night...
...example: a scene (described by Historian Philip Woodruff) that "Tawney of the Central Provinces" lived. "Quite early in his service, [Tawney] was rebuked for not appearing punctually when summoned before a superior. He must come at once, whatever he was doing, he was told. It was a rebuke quite foreign to the traditions of the service, and Tawney made the most of it. Next time he was summoned he appeared naked, borne shoulder high in a tin bathtub by four orderlies...
...want to make it tough] for an unreasonable employer by reaching his most sensitive spot -his pocketbook." The I.T.U. carefully picked its own spots, started dailies in twelve towns; in each there was only one newspaper, and its publisher had refused to deal with the union. I.T.U. President Woodruff Randolph not only hoped by competition to force the nonunion papers to recognize I.T.U. but also expected to give jobs to unemployed union members. But his papers lost money, and Randolph found that he was making it tougher for himself than for competing newspaper publishers...
...Cheap Tape." No one was more wary of TTS originally than Woodruff Randolph, president of the powerful International Typographical Union. But the I.T.U. now goes along with it, except for "cheap tape," i.e., syndicated features like Columnists Pearson, Winchell, the Alsops and 47 others, which Manhattan's Tape Production Corp. mails out in rolls of tape to more than 130 dailies for 50? a column. The union also still bitterly opposes the use of typists instead of compositors to set TTS copy, sarcastically calls it a "promising means of union-busting." Thus far, TTS has not created unemployment among...
Died. Roy Orchard Woodruff, 76, longtime (1913-15, 1921-52) Republican Congressman from Michigan who entered the House as a winner on Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose ticket, was a conservative shaper of G.O.P. policy during 14 years as chairman of the House Republican Conference; after long illness; in Washington...