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...this size, wealth and glamor, as top man of West Coast boilermakers, is squarejawed, hotheaded Thomas John Crowe, 47, IBBMISBWHA's Pacific Coast international representative. He started as an apprentice at 13, earning 10? an hour heating rivets at Parsons, Kans., and has climbed the union ladder rung by rung. Belligerent, tough, willing to crack heads if necessary to get what he wants, Tom Crowe has the reputation of a square shooter. West Coast management knows him as a man who will keep his word, once given. When welders tried to break away from IBBMISBWHA in July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: The Rise of IBBMISBWHA | 10/19/1942 | See Source »

There was a small fire yesterday afternoon behind the parking lot in the Business School. The whole fire department, hook-and-ladder included, turned out for the show, but there was very little...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fire at Business School Fails to Reach Halls | 10/2/1942 | See Source »

...ravishing Irish maid, on whose head admiring Frenchmen coyly dropped bougainvillea blossoms. In Paris and Manhattan he meets the Polish photographer Zygmunt Pisik, whose German mistress changed his name to Johann von Schönberg to start him off right. His French mistress pushed him right up the ladder by making him Henri de Beaumont. He became famous for his studies of nude ladies on bearskin rugs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Burglars & Bougainvillea | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

Today no man in the U.S. is more fanatical at laying down and arguing for New Deal policies. But somewhere up the ladder from young social worker to Presidential alter ego, Hopkins doffed the reformer's sackcloth, donned a sports jacket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: White House Romance | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

Repeat. In Hartford, Conn., firemen carried Mrs. M. J. Knowles down a ladder from her bedroom. Later she returned to bed. The fire rekindled, the firemen returned, carried her down the ladder again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

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