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John L. Lewis had outmaneuvered everyone, including himself. He had tied up the mines for 45 days at the cost of 90,000,000 tons of coal, had forced the Government to seize them and thus negotiate with him-and had gotten little or nothing the operators had not offered him in the first place. But he had seldom quoted as fiercely and gloomily from Shakespeare, had seldom endured criticism with more martyr-like fortitude. When it was all over he stood up before the news cameras as though he heard a surf-like thunder of applause...
...control of an established medical and hospital insurance fund, levied ori payrolls, and previously controlled by the operators. But they had offered that to him, too. He got the fashionable 18½?-an-hour pay rise. The mine owners had been willing to go a cent higher. He had gotten $100 vacation pay. The operators had offered him the same figure...
They looked so sad that he went in anyhow. No story. The guy was just another guy, name of Faro Mannino, age 25. Same with the dame. She was Eleanor Mannino, age 21. They were sore because they had gotten a divorce last December. They were sitting on opposite sides of the room, waiting to see the judge about the dame getting more money for their baby. Giese had seen a zillion like them. But he decided to give them the benefit of some good advice...
About 1,500 students met in a mass meeting to deplore the appointment. The Student Council, by 8-3 vote, wished that someone else had gotten the job. The faculty voted 186-160 not to express regret at Painter's appointment. Painter, in accepting the acting presidency, had announced that he did not want the job permanently. Campus posters punned: "Painter Getting Too Big for his Genes...
...from the fuddled old drifters who vanish nightly into the cold stone wildernesses of Chicago. He paid his rent, had a wife, three sons, and a button for 35 years' faithful service to the International Harvester Co. A Polish immigrant, he spoke little English. But he had never gotten lost before...