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Last year, as acting Mayor for 16 weeks after James John Walker's flight, clean-cut, grinning little Joseph Vincent McKee was the idol, the White Hope of thousands of New Yorkers who mortally hate & fear the yoke of Tammany. He had striven for municipal economies. Although he prided himself on his Democratic regularity, in Board of Estimate meetings he did not seem afraid to swap punches with Tammany. When bumbling John Patrick O'Brien was propped up in the special Mayoral election last November by Tammany, many a citizen was puzzled at Mr. McKee's unwillingness...
...through company unions. But Leader Lewis had a long head start on them, with the result that he is now undisputed master of more than half a million working men. When NRA first began to negotiate a coal code, most operators who had thrown off the union yoke in 1927 pooh-poohed the idea that U. M. W. had their labor already sewed up, flatly refused to dicker with Leader Lewis. A serious bituminous strike in Pennsylvania helped to change their minds. By the time the coal code reached the stage of public hearings in August, Miner Lewis dominated...
...Democratic National Committee. After listening to speeches by Postmaster General Farley, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Missouri's Governor Park and Indiana's Governor McNutt, they revolted against prepared addresses by their elders, limited them to ten minutes each. Likewise they threw off the national committee's yoke to pick their own officers for the Young Democratic Clubs of America...
...communism is assumed rather than proved in the article. Even accepting the desirability of communism in India and conceding the possibility of serial revolutions there, is it judicious to advocate the overthrow of Ghandi at this juncture? He is successfully marching his people towards political emancipation from a foreign yoke--a condition that must precede any other desired change. This first revolution is not consummated yet. Its hard won gains may be easily lost in a Will o' the Wisp chase for communism...
Last week began celebrations of town & gown centenaries. In Oberlin's Public Square 5,000 people watched Peter Pindar Pease (impersonated by Townsman John W. Hill) drive up with his yoke of black oxen and his wife (Ruth Pease, descendant) and his five children. Pioneer Pease gazed with feigned amazement at the modern college campus, where a replica of the original cabin had been built. Bands played. School children marched. Memorial trees were planted, in honor of the founders and of Pastor Oberlin. Virginia Richardson, 16, recited a history of Oberlin. So feelingly had she written this, winning...