Word: helms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until he took N.M.U.'s helm nine years ago, tattooed Joe Curran was an ordinary seaman with a more-than-ordinarily militant resentment of slim pay, mealy food and crummy quarters aboard U.S. ships. When disgruntled East Coast sailors cast off from the corrupt and ineffective A. F. of L. International Seamen's Union and went C.I.O., they made big Joe Curran top seadog in their aggressive new union. N.M.U. rank & filers had long had a noticeable list to port: some belonged to dockside cells of the Communist Party. No one lifted an eyebrow when a bunch...
...Polish Peasant Party, with Mikolajczyk at the helm, last month showed where it stands in the official coalition. In Warsaw's only remaining auditorium, the Roma movie theater, 444 Deputies to the Polish Provisional National Council gathered to legalize the revolution. Communist Mine proposed to nationalize all essential industries and all others employing more than 50 workers. Mikolajczyk did not oppose the bill. He asked that it be moderated by raising the limit of workers from 50 to 100. When his amendment was defeated, 17440-82, his party joined in voting for the original measure, which will make...
...turn out boots & shoes, bricks, fish fillets, horsehide coats, woolens, boxes, type, lumber and power. The government can also supply fire and general insurance, looks forward to marketing a volcanic-ash kitchen cleaner, running a bus service and perhaps a Moose Jaw radio station. With Cadbury at the helm, this might be only the beginning...
...President, confided White House Social Secretary Edith Helm last week, is a methodical, domestic man. His methods...
Grey, gracious Edith Helm, who was in the White House social secretariat under the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, and again under Eleanor Roosevelt, walked in with Miss Odum. Mrs. Helm confessed she was "scared to death." First off, she said that Mrs. Truman would not hold peace time receptions and dinners this winter ("inappropriate at present - these are sad times for many people who have suffered war losses"). Then, running down the First Lady's social list, she announced that Mrs. Truman would attend a tea on Oct. 12 given by the Daughters of the American Revolution...