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Bellboy reserves are boated thus: cox: William W. Sprague '36; stroke Mason Hammond; 7, Horace B. Shepard, 2nd. '34; 6, Marius E. Johnston, Jr. '35; 5, John D. Kernan, Jr. '35, 4, Richard C. Delong '36; 3, George B. Lauriat '36; 2, Alvin Hyde '35; and bow, Russel Grinnel...
...Arthur W. Milburn moved up from the presidency of Borden Co. to a new office known simply as Chief Executive. Last week when his successor, President Albert T. Johnston, resigned on account of ill health, Mr. Milburn returned to the presidency. The office of Chief Executive was abolished...
...objections. Neither turning head or shifting gaze, Mr. Lewis, with magnificent indifference, interjected: "Strike out '30 pieces of silver.' Let it stand 'Betray the union of his youth,' " and then resumed the even tenor of his oratory. Two days later he cracked another head. Forney Johnston, a slender, sharp-nosed Southerner, representative of the Alabama coal operators, came and delivered an ultimatum to NRA. Said he: "The hours and wages amendments to the bituminous code combine the law of the jungle with the worst features of a military despotism. . . . The Alabama coal operators are definitely determined...
...coal operators are not quite ready to declare war on the United States. But"-he paused and glowered-"if they feel that way, the United Mine Workers are ready within 15 days to furnish the President with 20 army divisions to force them to comply with the law." Mr. Johnston, very much in earnest, interrupted : "As between civil war in the industry and subjection of the industry to the proconsuls [northern coal operators who accepted the wage agreement] working through a military ringmaster [General Johnson], we prefer civil war." "I do not think," said Mr. Lewis contemptuously, "that it will...
...charming!" said Mr. Lewis, every ponderous inch the orator. "How novel! But I'm afraid it would not add to the gaiety of nations." And Forney Johnston, like Patrick Hurley, left the field of battle in possession of the grim Demosthenes of coal...