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...years. Without warning, wearing an unbecoming dovelike look, tough, gruff John L. Lewis clumped out of his lair brandishing a proposal for -of all things-labor peace. In a long, cooing letter to C.I.O. President Philip Murray and A.F. of L. President William Green, labor's black storm cloud proposed an end to the violent feud which has split labor for the last six years, kept labor's house in turmoil. Said Mr. Lewis...
...Ambassadorship to Russia. Accepting the post 23 years later, he took with him his second wife, Mrs. Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies, who inherited $20,000,000 from her father (Postum), was used to a 54-room triplex Manhattan apartment, owned a massive steam& -square-rigged yacht, Sea Cloud, which bugged the eyes of Leningrad. To be secure from hunger Ambassador and Mrs. Davies took with them 25 refrigerators containing 2,000 pints of frozen cream...
Dudley H. Cloud, secretary of the Committee on the use of English by students, was continually consulted by Gazecki to aid in putting out the Naval Science Bulletin. "The Navy and the University have lost something," he said...
Just what it was that turned tall, determined Mary Cassatt from the conventional life of a Philadelphia society girl to a career of painting on the Paris boulevards of the 1870s has always been shrouded in a cloud of Victorian propriety. Against the wishes of her banker father, who roared that he would almost rather see her dead than a painter, prim, self-willed Philadelphian Cassatt sailed off to Europe alone at the age of 23, remained there, except for a trip or two, until her death in 1926. Impatient with the conservative French academies where other U.S. students complacently...
...horizon a low-lying cloud appears, and grows. It is a column of dust, signaling a column of vehicles. They approach. There are tanks, command cars, supply vehicles. They clank to a stop and lie scattered. Men crawl out, stretch, make repairs, talk, crawl back...