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...outlet of his own in Philadelphia, he had bought space for his anti-New Deal advertisement in the reactionary Inquirer. When Julius David Stern, shirtsleeve publisher of the Record, saw it there, he picked it up, reprinted it free, used it as an excuse for another of his stand-up fights with a man whom most other publishers prudently ignore...
Such was the climax of the most exciting convention battle the A. F. of L. ever saw. Year after year a stand-up match had been predicted between progressive John L. Lewis and the conservative boss rule of placid President William Green and his omnipotent majority on the executive council. This year at last both factions stepped openly into the ring for the first time. Of the five rounds fought, John L. Lewis won two, lost two, tied one. This record, however, did not indicate the full extent to which the contest had increased Miner Lewis' stature...
...nearly perfect sample of self-made middle-class Englishman is Harold Keates Hales, M. P. Short, red-faced, hearty, with a good opinion of his own wits, an honest satisfaction with his eccentricities, he wears a stand-up "jam pot" collar and claims to be the only automobile driver in the world who has never once blown his horn. The energy piled up by this repression Mr. Hales has variously discharged by flying an airship around St. Paul's Cathedral (1908), achieving one of the first airplane crashes (1910), pushing and plodding ahead in the china and exporting businesses...
...minutes at Arnold Constable & Co.'s Fifth Avenue department store, Mrs. Roosevelt bought the dress she will wear at her husband's inaugural-a grey-blue velvet, ankle-length, with long puffed sleeves and a stand-up collar. She will also wear dark blue kid shoes, low-heeled for a long day on the feet...
Louis Howe is a slight, frail man, with a wrinkled face, who wears rumpled clothes and an old-fashioned stand-up collar. He is not as crusty as he looks. No "yes" man, he gives Governor Roosevelt plenty of unwelcome advice. He has a wife and two children in Fall River whom he visits weekends. After March 4 he probably can be found in a cubby-hole office at the White House, quiet and self-effacing but exerting a sound wholesome influence over the Presidency far beyond the country's realization...