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...depressing to Mr. Kennedy than outlook for new ships was the "deplorable" state of maritime labor. "The shipping industry is now paying for its shortsightedness in repressing labor for so many years." He urged a special labor law for all maritime labor, including longshoremen, on the lines of the Railway Labor Act with a mediation board. He also recommends a Government training school for seamen to be run by the Coast Guard. James A. Farrell, onetime president of U. S. Steel Corp., has offered his Tusitala, a full-rigged ship, as a training ship...
Only ray in this atmosphere of almost universal gloom was the leadership of the peace delegations. Speaking for A. F. of L. at the big oval table on the third floor of the Willard was George Harrison of the Railway Clerks, stocky, 42-year-old head of A. F. of L. railroad department and president of the potent Railway Labor Executives association...
Even more characteristic was the artist's method of feeling out and establishing his forms. Daumier had an extraordinary visual memory and a sculptor's grasp of three-dimensional movement. His famed drawings of lawyers, legislators, railway travelers, acrobats, street characters and bourgeois at home were done usually at night, under great journalistic pressure, without models or sketches. Although Balzac said Daumier had "Michelangelo under the skin," until 1860, when he was 52, he had scarcely any time to give to painting. When he was able to work in oils he went at it slowly using tentative outlines...
Died. Marie Pierre Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Sagan, fifth Duke of Talleyrand, 78, husband of Railway Heiress Anna Gould; of a heart attack; in Paris. The Duke married Heiress Gould in 1908 after she had been divorced from his cousin, Count Boni de Castellane. Her father, Jay Gould, who bequeathed her $80,000,000, opposed their marriage...
Last week Southern Railway Co.'s twelve directors convened in Manhattan's 60 Wall Tower for their monthly meeting and annual election of officers. Scholarly President Fairfax Harrison walked in and sat down in the slot of a huge old semicircular, yellow pine dispatcher's table. The minutes read. Mr. Harrison rose and, instead of passing the chair to someone else while his name was put in nomination (as he had done for a quarter of a century), he quietly announced to the board that he wished to retire. Having served the Southern since he joined...