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...members of his United Mine Workers. But that did not end one of the fiercest wars in U. S. Labor: A. F. of L.'s small but growing Progressive Miners of America is still trying to proselytize Lewis men in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Alabama and elsewhere, lay the groundwork for demanding agreements in 1941. Meanwhile, the Lewis union, greatly strengthened by its victory, is chipping away at Progressive's main hailiwicks in Illinois, Kentucky...
Thus he laid the groundwork for a new recovery program. A year ago, after the stockmarket cracked, the New Deal launched a $4,000,000,000 spending program calculated to raise consumers' buying power. It did, but a year later recession again rears its ugly head, and this time the Administration, in spite of what the President said May 22 about the milk and the coconut (see p. 15), is tempted to try something else, is toying with the idea of spending for capital goods...
...late to be neutral, Congress is asked to rubber stamp a declaration of war, and the people are lured by fancy slogans about fighting to end all war and save democracy. After the supreme sacrifice is made, democracy is destroyed and the peace settlement lays the groundwork for the next...
...Toscanini can be said to have any proteges, they are Erich Leinsdorf, newest of the Metropolitan Opera's conductors, and Hans Steinberg. An exile from Nazi Germany, Steinberg was conducting the Palestine Symphony when Toscanini visited there in 1936. So delighted was Toscanini with Steinberg's preliminary groundwork for his concerts that he chose him as his assistant in preparing for the NBC broadcasts...
...Francisco last fortnight Realtor Louis Lurie announced that he had organized a $5,000,000 company to produce pictures written and acted by Mae West. In Hollywood last week Mae West Empire Pictures Inc. was starting groundwork for its first production: Catherine the Great, written and acted by Cinemactress West, to be released early next year...