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...presidency of A. F. of L.'s Building Service Employees' International Union (with a membership of some 70,000 charwomen, chambermaids, elevator operators, window washers), a $25,000-a-year salary, an unlimited expense account. A little-known figure he might have remained, had not crusty, crusading Columnist Westbrook Pegler (who last fortnight got William Bioff, boss of A. F. of L. studio labor in Hollywood, sent to jail in Illinois to serve out an 18-year-old sentence for pandering) grown curious about Mr. Scalise...
...Humbug." A sort of Transcendentalist Dorothy Thompson, Margaret Fuller was No. 1 feminist writer of her day. She edited the highbrow Dial, and as Horace Greeley's first columnist ranked next to Poe as literary critic. But she is not remembered for her writing. What survives is curiosity about her personality. Biographer Wade, 26-year-old publisher's editor and book reviewer, will not satisfy the curiosity of more exacting readers, but his biography is well organized and readable. To Margaret Fuller's credit is Emerson's doting praise, many another Transcendentalist's compliments...
...most important bill to come before Congress in 100 years," Colonel McGuire called his (and Mr. Walter's) bill. Why this could be said without extravagant exaggeration, Columnist Mark Sullivan explained: "It [the bill] goes to the heart of what is troubling this country and the world-the conflict between the rights of man and the authority of Government. ... [It provides] that where-ever an agency of Government attempts to exercise power over a citizen . . . every man shall be entitled to his day in court." Nobody quarreled with this objective, nor disputed its implication. But four days of debate...
...this statement Mr. Frank informally added: "I know of nothing to justify any suggestion that Mr. Willkie has had anything to do with the alleged irregularities." Scripps-Howard Columnist Ludwell Denny, accepting this disavowal at its face value, put forward another reason for doubting that SEC was aiming at Mr. Willkie. Observed Writer Denny: "The last thing in the world they [the Democrats] want to do is to prevent Mr. Willkie's nomination. They will do all in their power indirectly to make him the Republican candidate...
What is purportedly the finest Moosehead ever to have come out of the State of Maine has been presented to the Athletic Association by Bill Cunningham, sports columnist of the Boston Post...