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...what he could to discourage Napoleon's ambitions in the New World, returned with news of an amazing bargain they had made. It ended for all time the danger of a foreign neighbor settling on the west bank of the Mississippi. They had in their pockets a contract for the Louisiana Purchase...
...Willkie companies were clients of the biggest espionage agency devoted solely to industrial work. Mr. Flynn also charged that Consumers Power Co. and Alabama Power Co., both Commonwealth & Southern subsidiaries, were found guilty by NLRB "of interfering with the rights of their employes," that Consumers Power, after signing a contract with C. I. O., launched a "determined antiC. I. O. offensive" which "continued unrelentingly right up to the day the Republicans picked Mr. Willkie, when, by coincidence, the management suddenly began acting with sweet reasonableness...
Wendell Willkie, who was the first utility executive in the U. S. to sign a contract with C. I. O., and whose companies had some 30 contracts with C. I. O. and A. F. of L., did not ignore this challenge. Mr. Flynn's "labor spies," said he, were hired for only one job: to inspect collections on Commonwealth & Southern streetcars when they changed from two-man to one-man operation, see that all the nickels went into the cash...
...Bucharest there was a carnival of arresting "grafters." Former premiers, former ministers, rich men and almost anyone who ever had anything to do with a Government contract were locked up. It was radiorated that $11,000,000 had been found in a secret Government fund. New York Timesman Eugen Kovacs discovered that Berlin by no means regards the Iron Guard as its trusty agent. "German circles are more inclined toward General Antonescu than [toward] the Iron Guard," cabled Kovacs, declaring the Guard is badly split by personal rivalries within itself. Red Dog declined to form a new Cabinet of Iron...
...Cohen, attorney for a bankrupt Chicago laundry workers' union, asked Donovan why he didn't organize the city's 18,000 laundry workers. Bill went back to his first love with such vigor that within a few months his local (No. 46) had a signed contract with the 137 members of the Chicago Laundry Owners Association, which does 85% of Chicago's home laundry for some $29,000,000 a year...