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...UNLESS I CAN PERSUADE YOU TO SPEAK A FEW MORE WORDS IN MY BEHALF TO OUTRAGED HISTORIANS. YOU QUOTED ME AS SAYING NO COMPREHENSIVE PICTURE OF ANYTHING COULD BE OBTAINED FROM ANY ONE OR ANY TEN HISTORIES. I WILL BE DODGING SNIPERS THE REST OF MY LIFE UNLESS YOU EXPLAIN THAT THIS REMARK WHEN CARELESSLY EMITTED IN A PERSONAL LETTER TWO YEARS AGO APPLIED SPECIFICALLY TO THE BURGOYNE CAMPAIGNS OF 1776 AND 1777. ALSO OBLIGED TO DISCLAIM DEVELOPING GREAT IDEA OF BEING AMERICA'S BEST HISTORICAL NOVELIST. NEVER HAD IT AND NEVER WILL BECAUSE EVERY TIME...
...bargaining, fearing that it would inspire immediate mass organization in their plants. But broad-viewing publishers like Roy Howard fought for and won inclusion of such recognition as a means of gaining public goodwill. Up on his feet a dozen & more times jumped the Times's Sulzberger to explain the fine points of the resolution as it stood when it came out of committee...
...Carpenters Union. Subsidiary of the Carpenters in the Northwest is the Federation of Woodworkers, Lumberjacks and Sawmill Workers, 130,000 strong. Always radical, the Woodworkers have definite leanings to the C. I. 0. and Bill Hutcheson hoped to prevent their defection. For Lewis came his lieutenant John Brophy "to explain" C. I. O. not only to the Woodworkers but to the Maritime Federation of the Pacific (which includes not only longshoremen but sailors, engineers, radiomen, cooks, firemen -40,000 strong". In both meetings, held simultaneously in different rooms of Portland's brown brick Labor Temple, diagonally across from...
...them a bit of last-minute information. Last February, said Sir George, he had become president of Thomas J. Lipton, Inc., when the stock of that U. S. company had been wholly acquired by his English corporation. Why his election had not been announced before he did not explain, observed vaguely: "There never has been a time when the strengthening of economic ties between the United States and the United Kingdom has been more important...
...herd of cattle in Oklahoma's Wichita Mountains. It had been recommended not by the Department of Agriculture but by the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Senator Borah rose to question it. Up stood the item's sponsor, Oklahoma's handsome white-crested Elmer Thomas, to explain that the cattle were one of the last herds of longhorns left in the U. S. "These cattle are friends of mine," cried he. "I have been down to see them. I know them...