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...part at least, for the collapse of the peace negotiations. But the question of war and peace hung mostly on the division within the A. F. of L. itself. In the Executive Council a man's importance depends on the number of votes he can command. Moderate Matthew Woll (who all last week was in touch with C.I.O.'s Moderate Dubinsky) has only 8,700 photo-engravers behind him. Moderate George Harrison has the backing of 135,000 railway clerks. But Lewis' implacable enemies number such men as William ("Big Bill") Hutcheson who alone pays...
...engines, six with her sails in a good breeze. But under sail she could scarcely be managed, and her engines used five tons of coal a day. Owned by Bennett, she had been commissioned by the Navy. Bennett paid the expenses of the trip although naval officers were in command and even the correspondents sailed as U. S. Navy seamen. Naval engineers shook their heads over the Jeannette, reported skeptically that "so far as practicable" she had been fitted for Arctic service. No naval vessel was on hand to do her honor as she waddled out of San Francisco...
...tars of South Shields, England's coal-exporting town that slumps at the mouth of the River Tyne, were excited last month as word flashed through local labor exchanges that Tynemouths Ltd., shipping contractors, wanted unemployed seamen for a special job. Last week, under the command of John W. Sinks, Cunard White Star captain, retired in 1934 after 35 years of service, the 65 seamen picked in South Shields emerged from third class of the liner Berengaria in Manhattan. Their "special job''-with the help of 40 Canadians and 40 U. S. engineers and fire...
...General Doubleday was in command of the Union troops on the first day of the battle...
...Government's successful defense of a collateral gold clause case before the Supreme Court in 1935 he was still more impressed, got him the appointment of assistant attorney general and that same year persuaded Franklin Roosevelt that Stanley Reed should be given the Solicitor Generalship, highest legal command save Homer Cummings' in the first great war between the New Deal and the Supreme Court...