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There was no mystery about why Jimmy Byrnes had put his colleagues on a spot. Last week John Lewis' C.I.O. was just getting underway its big push into the weakly unionized South, its goal an organization of 1,250,000 textile workers. No factories are more vulnerable to the Sit-Down than the South's textile mills. Furthermore, by taking the lead in condemning the Sit-Down while Franklin Roosevelt preserved silence, the Senate would be doing the President a good turn -as Texas Jack Garner, stanch backer of the Byrnes proposal, was heard remarking to Majority Leader...
...down lasted only 25 hours. Down from Detroit flew a U. A. W. vice president and several Ford officials, quickly negotiated a settlement restoring all jobs and guaranteeing seniority rights, got the men out of the plant. Plainly the union was not yet ready to start its big push against Ford. Its leaders were already having all the trouble, they could handle with Chrysler and their own turbulent followers...
...colleagues. "I have never directly or indirectly criticized any fellow-craftsman's output, or encouraged any man or woman to do so." He walked into success like a happy somnambulist: "That period was all, as I have said, a dream, in which it seemed that I could push down walls, walk through ramparts and stride across rivers." Kipling's parents; who lived till he was 45, remained his most sympathetic and helpful critics. He credits his mother with one of his best-known lines: "What do they know of England who only England know?" His father helped...
...load to the general power load. Overloading is thus eliminated and the voting current is recorded on a special meter. This automatic operation calls for no action on the part of the listeners. To get "Yes" and "No" ballots it would be necessary, of course, for the listeners to push buttons, but the fact that an auditor is listening in may be taken as approval of the program...
...Tuesday afternoon, the Adams natators barely submerged Dudley, 34-28, the meet being decided by the relay. William I. Popper '37, of Adams, aided the cause of the Gold Coasters considerably with firsts in the 50-yard and 100-yard free style, combining with Paul W. Sears '37 to push the Dudley star, Paul Massik '38 back to third place in the 50. Massik got his revenge by leading Sears across the finish line in the 50-yard back stroke...