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...lonely radio amateur got through with some word. The nerves of civilization quietly parted. Wide clean streets became tangles of wires. Forty-year-old trees, planted and cared for as trees are cared for only in the plain country, groaned and creaked all through the night, booming as they split open...
...Bologna, fat, flush Tenor Beniamino Gigli found he had won the weekly Italian national lottery. He promptly split the 11,000 lire ($555.50) prize among a friend and the three waiters whose shield numbers he had played...
...subdivided. The convention of C. I. 0 which he addressed was divided by 1,400 miles and a world of bitterness from the convention of the A. F. of L. in New Orleans. C. I. O. was itself divided in a fight over Communist leaders, A. F.of L. similarly split in a fight over racketeers. And the words were hardly out of Sidney Hillman's mouth when members of Congress, irked by the still unsettled strike at the Vultee Aircraft plant (TIME, Nov. 25), began to denounce "strikes against the Government," to suggest bills to prevent the organizing...
...shoulders rested a double responsibility. Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins vaguely denied a circumstantial report by the New York Times that she had finally pinned on her hat and resigned. But Sidney Hillman had already overshadowed her. As Labor Man on the National Defense Advisory Commission, the split between A. F. of L. and C. I. 0. was his burden. As a leader of C. I. O. the split within that body was his burden...
...Atlantic City, five years ago, insurgents led by John L. Lewis and Sidney Hillman defied the hierarchy of the American Federation of Labor. Out of that convention sprang the Congress of Industrial Organizations. This week, gathering in the same Atlantic City hotel, C. I. O. itself threatened to split asunder. The opposing leaders of its wrangling factions: John Lewis and Sidney Hillman...