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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...