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Walsh traced the history of the CIO's split with the A. F. of L., showing how Green continued Gompers' business unionism, craft unionism, and non-politicalism. During the speech he drew freely from the background of his recent research work on the Wertheim Fellowship...
Edwin Seymour Smith, 45, no kin to Donald Wakefield, has an even more extensive Labor background. After Harvard and a stretch of reporting for the Springfield Republican and Hartford Times, he became employment manager of Boston's famed Filene Department Store and personal assistant to Board Chairman Abraham Lincoln Filene. In 1931 he was appointed Massachusetts' Commissioner of Labor & Industries, left that job to join the old NRA Labor Board. Ruddy-faced, blue-eyed, a snappy dresser given to loud neckties, he reads omnivorously, has written several economic treatises, relaxes week ends on his farm in Loudoun County...
Aside from rather meaningless titles, the two films at Keith's Memorial this week-end present the best rounded twin bill we've witnessed this season. "The Woman I Love", starring Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins, tells the story of the usual love triangle against a background of the front line trenches on the Soissons sector in 1917, while "We Have Our Moments", a gay and riotous farce of twenty years later, put the audience in giggles the moment the news reel before it subsided and left many in the aisles exhausted at the end of the hour...
...instead of going to France they landed in Vladivostok with some 7,000 other U. S. troops, most of them from the Pacific Coast, who formed the U. S. contingent of Allied Intervention in Russia from 1918 to 1920. From this halfway point the story is told against a background of the "strange, mystifying events" related in General Graves's America's Siberian Adventure. President Wilson's instructions were specific and General Graves stuck to them: to protect Allied munitions stores against German seizure, not to interfere in Russian internal affairs. The British and Japanese took...
Against a background of New London barrooms and immaculately white icebergs this picture dedicated to the bravery and determination of the Coast Guard tells a story of frustrated love at last triumphant. It almost never fails to be quiet entertainment...