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...Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney et al. Tough, wide-chested, hard-drinking Bill Dunne, the "Wild Bull from Montana," had come into the Party by way of the I.W.W. He had led striking copper miners in Butte, textile workers in Passaic, coal miners in West Virginia. During the '20s he had plotted with William Z. Foster and Earl Browder to dominate U.S. Communists. In nearly three decades in the class war, he had braved the cops, employer goons and deputies of a dozen states; had danced and quaffed champagne with beautiful Russian women in Stalin's Moscow...
...Hand. After years of mismanagement, AVCO was so close to death it was hardly breathing. Nevertheless, there were plenty who wanted a chance at the carcass. Errett Lobban Cord, a brass young auto salesman who had skyrocketed up in the golden '20s,-and put out a slinky car bearing his name-controlled AVCO. But to a cunning infighter like V.E., with the well-heeled Schroders again in his corner, it was the work of only a few months to knock out Cord* and take over the company in August...
Died. Charles W. Seiberling, 85, longtime rubber tycoon, who, with his brother Frank, founded the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., lost control of it in the '20s, bounced back with the Seiberling Rubber Co.; in Akron...
...20s, when Manhattan teemed with murdering bootleggers, big spenders, lovable drunks and chorines with hearts of gold, one of Broadway's favorite mirrors of the times was Columnist Mark Hellinger. After nine years in Hollywood, Hellinger has somehow managed to retain the wide-eyed, gaudy spirit of the old days. The Killers, his first independent production for Universal, is packed with scenes, characters and dialogue straight out of Hellinger's Broadway...
...survivors from the '20s it seemed like Old Home Week...