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Harry Truman could not stand much more of the kind of humiliation he had suffered at the hands of Lewis and the brotherhoods' Alexander Whitney and Alvanley Johnston. The nation's economy could not stand many more such paralyzing strikes. Harry Truman and Congress had let things drift so far that there was nothing to do but drop a legislative atomic bomb...
...rails, President Truman picked up his telephone. Once before, in the last half hour, he had talked with two men in Cleveland who could prevent the awful smash: Alexander Fell Whitney, the big-jawed, well-tailored president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen (211,000 members) and Alvanley Johnston, the crotchety Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (78,000 members). Now he talked again, and this time-just 26 minutes before the strike deadline-he got a promise. The strike was off, for five days, and the Messrs. Whitney & Johnston would return to Washington and resume negotiations with...
With a few words, a knowing nod and a confidential elbow-push in the stomach, he convinced many a jittery second-rater that he was really a wildcat. His persuasiveness worked the other way, too. Johnston once whispered to mighty Jess Willard: "Jess, you killed a man in your last fight. . . . I just thought I'd warn you, my boy has a bad heart...
...once put an ad in a newspaper: "Wanted: young man to become Heavyweight Champion of the World." The best of the applicants was a nondescript Welshman, who with the help of Johnston's imagination and a dime-store bandanna emerged as Gypsy Daniels, eldest son of a gypsy king who lived at the foot of Rhondda Mountain in Wales. Jimmy also wowed New York's Chinatown with Ah Wong, a "Chinese lightweight" whose real name was Mickey Mulligan...
...promotional comeback next month at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Last week, sitting in dusty, second-rate St. Nick's Arena, he saw his white hope fall down five times in ten rounds. Said Jimmy: "It made me sick." Next morning, 70-year-old James J. Johnston fell dead of a heart attack...