Word: pottstown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Toronto, Ont. last week, slender, jug-eared L. S. Buckmaster returned from four months in limbo to win re-election as president of the C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers of America. Fired from the presidency after a Pottstown, Pa. local president charged him with trying to disrupt the local and fomenting a riot at one of its meetings, Conservative Buckmaster cleared himself in a seven-hour debate at the union's annual convention, then beat his perennial rival, George Bass, for another term...
...Stuyvesant High School, New York, Gilbert R, Panzer, of Newtown High School, Elmhurst, New York; Earl C. Ravenal, of Hope High School, Providence; Neil J. Smelser, of Phoenix Union High School, Phoenix, Arizona; David K. Specter, of Brooklyn Technical High School; Isaac Thomas, Jr., of the Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; and David B. Tyack, of Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter...
...sheet, the Hollywood Reporter (circ. 7,500). But last week Edith Gwynn's column was being syndicated. Seven newspapers had already signed it up: the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Boston Post, the Indianapolis Times, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the New York Morning Telegraph and the Pottstown (Pa.) Mercury...
...well-oiled machinery set up by handsome Brigadier General Albert Browning, 54, ex-president of United Wallpaper Factories, Inc. of Chicago (TIME, Aug. 30). This machine is now managed by Colonel David N. Hauseman, 49, grey-eyed, soft-spoken director of the Army's Readjustment Division. Born in Pottstown, Pa., Colonel Hauseman graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, was a lieutenant in World War I. He liked the Army, stayed to become an ordnance expert. On various sabbaticals he collected degrees from Massachusetts Tech (Bachelor of Science) and Harvard (Master of Business Administration). Temple University contributed an honorary science...
What scared OPM was that the strike might spread from Buffalo to other Bethlehem plants-Pottstown, Lebanon, Johnstown, the big parent plant at Bethlehem itself. In danger of disruption or complete stoppage was work on a $1,500,000,000 Government contract...