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...Springfield. By the time she was ready, her still rising father had been able to send her to the Kirk School in Bryn Mawr, Pa., then on to Bryn Mawr College. But college seemed dull after living with her dynamic father and his problems; after two years she quit to go to work for him as secretary. That was four years ago. Since then Father John Lewellyn Lewis has become the biggest Labor Leader in the land. Noted for her tact in cooling off his frequently angry visitors, Daughter Kathryn calls her father "Mr. Lewis" in his office...
...downtown merchants, the working conditions of the automobile workers of this city is a national scandal. . . . Mr. Mayor, you see to it that the law is properly enforced. . . . Give us our rights and we'll quit sitting down. You'll find out we're at least as smart as a jackass. We know even a mule has sense enough to sit down when he's overworked. . . . Henry Ford, you can't stop your workers from joining the union. . . . The best thing for you to do, Henry, is to get ready to do business with your...
...clerks and commissioners. All the names were written on slips and five chosen by lot for each polling place. By entering plenty of dummy candidates one side could, by the law of chance, practically exclude opposing factions from the important job of counting votes. Then the dummy candidates could quit the race...
Lawyer Eugene Stanley-onetime district attorney of New Orleans, who quit when Long appointed an entire staff of Longsters to serve under him-recently culminated his old war with the Long machine by setting out to kill Long's primary election law. As attorney for John W. Ward, candidate for mayor of Alexandria in primaries to be held next week, Mr. Stanley got his case against Long's primary law up to the State supreme court. For the State Constitution says: "the Legislature shall enact laws to secure fairness in party primary elections...
Most spectacular prospector-tycoon is Jack Hammell, a onetime professional fisticuffer from the mining camps of California who quit a good brokerage house job in Manhattan to head for the Klondike. By his account he has won and lost eleven fortunes. He was among the first in the great Cobalt silver rush, but his first big money came from the Flin Flon, which he sold to the late Harry Payne Whitney. Since then he has had a hand in Pickle Crow and Red Lake. At 60, he still prospects by plane, summer and winter, is sometimes called "the gentleman adventurer...