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...appearance in the film, but unhappily his lines were provided by someone less talented than Benchley at writing a Benchley role. The Stork Club's Sherman Billingsley (played by Bill Goodwin) should be gratified by his screen portrait: he is pictured as handsome, witty, kindly, generous to a fault and extravagantly admired by all his own employes as well as by cafe society at large...
...wind was blowing. Onetime N.A.M. president Frederick Coolidge Crawford, bitterly hated by organized labor, but proud of his personal labor relations in his own open shop plants of Thompson Products, suggested that 1) it was management's job to increase productivity; 2) management was often at fault for labor troubles. Said he: "You sit in your office wondering what your workers are thinking. Do you know that the answer to your human-relations problem lies within the four walls of your plant? Go into your factory. Call your workers together. Ask them about their problems. Explain the relationship between...
...fault lies not with the top military command. The Chief of Staff conceived a sound program for giving the best soldier in the world the treatment demanded to preserve the American qualities that make him the best soldier. Its essence was to treat the soldier with respect as an individual...
...fault lies in the Army system, which allows any small mind anywhere in the chain of command to destroy such a program. An abstraction like the dignity of man was particularly vulnerable and abhorrent to the small minds. The result was that the majority of American soldiers throughout their Army careers have been insulted by the mutilation of every principle of personal integrity for which most of them knew in their hearts they were fighting. Is it any wonder they apply political pressure...
...made us as dirt and dung among the nations. . . . We are deserving of all that is happening to us at this time. It is our, fault, our great fault. . . . O God . . . watch over those who have power over our powerlessness and show them that hate can never accomplish anything...