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...official mansion, a cavernous Regency Park residence given to the U.S. Government by Five & Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton in 1946. Although Aldrich wanted everything "informal," invitations to 330 guests called for "evening dress and decorations," a sure tipoff that royalty would be present. With some 50 Scotland Yardmen and bobbies barring gate-crashers (including all newsmen), the regal parade was led by Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip and Queen Mother Elizabeth. After Aldrich whirled the Queen about the ballroom in a lively foxtrot, some of his countrymen started cutting in on the faintly startled Elizabeth. Protocol soon died an informal...
Before the President took to the radio, the wildcat strike of railroad switchmen and yardmen threatened to be one of the ugliest in U.S. history. It was timed cunningly, to put the best face on it. The strikers were out to delay a maximum of Christmas mail and hold up deliveries to Korea, thus win higher pay. The strike started in Chicago, where 8,500 members of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen reported "sick" and refused to work. Within 24 hours, 50,000 trainmen were idle in ten U.S. cities, and traffic was snarled on 30 of the nation...
...trainmen, and 62-year-old Roy 0. Hughes, president of 38,000 conductors. For 17 months, Kennedy and Hughes had been demanding that the carriers cut the work week in yards from 48 hours to 40, at the same time grant a 31?-an-hour wage boost so that yardmen would make as much money as when they worked the full 48. Actually, wages would be higher, since workers would get in more overtime at time-and-a-half. Similar demands were made on behalf of 168,000 trainmen and conductors who worked out on the roads. When management balked...
...Kirkland 24. Sparked by the running of Bob Zimmerman, the Yard team bulled its way to the six where the Deacon threw them back three successive times. On the last down, Zimmerman scooted around right end to score. With the game riding on the attempt for extra point, the Yardmen elected to pass and Ray Silver snatched Bob O'Keefe's aerial...
Brotherhood president, tough, New Dealish Alexander Fell Whitney, first worked out this plan in Chicago where he put several thousand laid-off yardmen to work on railroads desperately short of switchmen. ODT figures that next year the railroads will need 450,000 new employes to handle increased traffic, replace those gone to war. Whitney's plan would help cut this number...