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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ed Hall and some 500 delegates to a special convention were in Cleveland last week to save their union's ninth and last life. Provisional President Roland Jay Thomas, Vice Presidents Hall, Richard Frankensteen and Wyndham Mortimer, Secretary-Treasurer George Addes, many another feudist professed the utmost anxiety to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ninth Life | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Walter Reuther, a canny little ex-Socialist who controls U. A. W.'s huge West Side Local in Detroit, had fathered a plan to abolish dissension by abolishing four of the five vice-presidencies, leaving one for himself. Messrs. Murray & Hillman got the convention to adopt a more complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Ninth Life | 4/10/1939 | See Source »

Romilly, Winston Churchill's 18-year-old nephew, scandalized his Tory family by packing off to Spain to fight for the Loyalists. The Hon. Jessica Lucy ("Decca") Freeman-Mitford, 19, second-youngest of the six beauteous daughters* of Baron Redesdale, scandalized her equally Tory family by joining Esmond. Fuming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

President of U. C. A. P. A. W. A. (pronounced Ucápawa for short) is Donald Henderson, who according to Messrs. Butler and Mitchell used to be a central committeeman of the Communist Party. If Mr. Henderson is no longer a Communist, as he tells his C. I. 0...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Secession | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

Reason for the convention: Robert Wadlow, tallest man in the world (he claims an alltime high of 8 ft. 8 in.), had brought suit for $100,000 against Dr. Charles Dean Humberd of Barnard, Mo. Dr. Humberd had described Wadlow, in a scientific article in the Journal of the American...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gian+s in Court | 3/20/1939 | See Source »

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