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...President Gerard Swope agreed to a conference with C.I.O.'s United Electrical & Radio Workers, commencing next week. In Boston, C.I.O. organizers announced formation of a new United Shoe Workers union, with 20,000 charter members. Abandoning his U.M.W. coal conference in Manhattan for a few days, Leader Lewis sped back to Washington to lay plans for major organizing drives in Textiles and Oil. Contemptuously he brushed aside newshawks' questions about the animadversions of William Green. Snapped the Man of the Year-to-date: "I have work...
...moments in the dead of night, as well as morning & evening. He sent her last week a home movie titled I Take Ski Lessons full of spills. Abruptly this week Mrs. Simpson and her Cannes hosts Mr. & Mrs. Herman L. Rogers piled into the royal Buick, sped toward the French chateau country through a rainstorm. All Mrs. Simpson's previous large trunks plus three new ones just arrived from Paris were shipped after her from Cannes. Riviera friends said she planned to look over French châteaux with a view to rental while Edward keeps looking over Austrian...
...side of Winston Churchill's 18-year-old Nephew Esmond Romilly, fighting with the Spanish Loyalists since last December, sped the Hon. Jessica Lucy Freeman-Mitford, 19, beauteous fifth daughter of Baron Redesdale. When fuming Lord Redesdale moved to have Daughter Jessica made a ward in chancery so that it would have been a crime for any Englishman to marry her without the consent of the High Court, Esmond and Jessica coolly announced that that was all right with them, "as what is marriage but a mere convention?" A British consular official was sent after the couple, instructed...
...Sped By Train...
First official act of big, bronze-skinned Mr. McNutt will be to sit in on discussions of U. S.-Philippine trade relations with President Roosevelt and little, brown-skinned Commonwealth President Manuel Quezon, who last week sped across the land from Los Angeles to keep his White House engagement. Informed of Mr. McNutt's appointment in Chicago, President Quezon tactfully observed that if President Roosevelt had chosen him he must be the best man for the job. But in Manila, the U. S.-owned-&-edited Bulletin declared: "If politics had not been considered, if special fitness had been...