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Before press conference the President arranged to have a written question submitted asking whether he agreed with U. S. Steel's Benjamin Franklin Fairless that steel prices could not be cut without cutting wages. The answer, written out, he read to reporters in the best Roosevelt manner, tossing his head from side to side, stopping once to point out how he used monosyllables so anyone could understand. Excerpts...
...current series of articles on C. I. O., featured in Scripps-Howard newspapers, Benjamin Stolberg, leftist labor writer, described President David Dubinsky of the model International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union as a "shrewd politician, a hard bargainer, as tough as he is honest, and full of fun." Last week Mr. Dubinsky employed a number of these talents at the expense of John L. Lewis. Summoning the executive boards of all the Garment Workers' locals to convention in Manhattan-the first general assembly in six months-President Dubinsky put his position on C. I. O. squarely before...
...Saturday Evening Post was not founded by Benjamin Franklin, as blazoned from the Post's headband. Franklin died in 1790. The Post began publication, as a compendium of news and literary contributions, August 4, 1821, in a little printing shop on Philadelphia's Market Street which happened to have inherited Franklin's old hand press, a few fonts of his type and the goodwill of his defunct Pennsylvania Gazette...
...tall, tolerant Henry Noble MacCracken. They were bedded in Main Hall, the men in one wing, girls in another. In the corridors between the two wings the college had prudently stationed watchmen. Among the delegates were Economist Stuart Chase's son Robert (Harvard). Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Cardozo's niece Nancy (Swarthmore), Law Professor Felix Frankfurter's niece Ruth (Barnard), famed Lawyer Samuel Untermyer's grandson Frank (Cornell). Absent were A. S. U.'s executive committee members George Watt and Paul MacEachron, fighting with the Loyalists in Spain. Several A. S. U. members have been...
When it was first suggested in 1833 that Philadelphia's streets be lighted by gas instead of oil, a group of such prominent citizens as Benjamin Chew, Horace Binney and Jacob Ridgeway wrote in consternation to the city council. They protested against the use of "an uncertain light, sometimes disappearing and leaving the streets and houses in total darkness." Despite these dire predictions, the city council spent $100,000 on a municipal gasworks which began supplying 46 street lights and two homes in 1836. Last week hundreds of Philadelphia housewives telephoned the city hall to find out whether...