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...might try an open appeal to the U.N. If an inside job is to be tried, then look for the familiar pattern. Whether it would work in Finland as well as in Czechoslovakia and elsewhere is a question. Three Communist-organized demonstrations at factories flopped last week. At a railway repair shop an impassioned speaker said: "Two hands are being offered you. Will you grasp the hand of capitalism or the hand of Stalin?" Dutiful stooges started yelling: "Stalin," but were drowned out by hearty shouts of "Neither...
...Citizen's Duty. Alleghany Corp.'s Robert R. Young registered with Congress as a lobbyist for his Federation for Railway Progress. Said rambunctious Railroader Young: "It is a citizen's duty to work for constructive legislation. If that is lobbying, we are proud of our new calling-lobbyist...
Died. James Herbert McGraw, 87, founder of the McGraw-Hill publishing empire (38 trade magazines and the largest technical book publishing house in the world); after long illness; in San Francisco. In 1885, Schoolteacher McGraw joined the American Railway Publishing Co., later bought an interest in it for $2,500. A spectacularly successful publisher for 50 years, he always claimed that he liked schoolteaching better...
...windy convention floor, hurrying down corridors, upstairs in rooms pointedly unlisted at the registration desk, all the panjandrums and small fry of big labor's leadership showed in full force. They were from the previously-hostile CIO, AFL, and powerful independent unions such as the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen and the International Association of Machinists. Phil Murray was present sub rosa for a brief few hours Saturday in one of those up-stairs rooms. William Green made his first appearance before any political convention, on the same platform with Walter Reuther at that; Reuther's biting oratory forced this caricature...
Work was said to be progressing on the 2,400 foot standard guage cable railway on Thorn Mountain's steep slopes at Jackson. The owner hopes to have his railway, which will tap many new slopes on Thorn and Middle Mountains, operating sometime this month...