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...chamber, the Senate's barnlike caucus room, but in the House Ways & Means Committeeroom, which has much better acoustics, handsome indirect lighting, and comfortable chairs of green-blue leather. On the long bench were little placards identifying the committeemen for the audience. In the centre sat old Representative Bob Doughton of Laurel Springs, N. C., chairman of the joint committee, his bald dome almost as bright as his Palm Beach suit; at his left, Senator Pat Harrison, vice chairman...
...faction, conservative and contrary individuals from the Southwest and Midwest who resent the "New York domination," approved joining C. I. O. but opposed broadening the union's membership base. On the grounds that coupling the two issues was like "hitching up a dead horse and a live one," "Bob" Buck's insurgents called for a unionwide referendum on admitting non-editorial people to the Guild. To that President Broun evoked a simile of his own. He said that voting for C. I. O. affiliation and against industrial unionization was like "ordering corned beef and cabbage, without the corned...
...BOB LEVIN...
...Washington last week, the U. S. Patent Office issued to the Bob Feller Co. of Cleveland Trade Mark Certificate of Registration No. 390,512 for the words "Hi-Feller," to use with picture of Bob Feller "on nonalcoholic, maltless beverages," and Certificate No. 389,499 for the words "Good Feller," for use "on candies and candy bars." In Cleveland last week, Pitcher Bob Feller, 18-year-old prodigy of the Cleveland Indians who has been out of action almost since the season's start with a sore right arm, reported for action after a week's treatment...
...Negro Boxer John Henry Lewis: a technical knockout over Bob Olin, after flooring him for a count of seven in the eighth round of a scheduled 15-round bout, in St. Louis; thus retaining the world's light-heavyweight title he won from Olin...