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...Labor is a very great woman. But Miss Perkins is a social worker-not a labor expert-and the two words are not synonymous by any means. The stress of this period has discovered, in a Democrat, an ideal Minister of Labor . . . Edward F. McGrady. It may be the fault of nobody, but the labor movement in this country is a mess...
Today the editor who "dismisses for no fault" one of his staff in Italy faces a suit which Italian courts usually decide by awarding the ousted staffman damages amounting to half his yearly salary, plus an extra month's pay for every year of his service before he was "fired." On the basis of this law, Correspondent Thomas B. ("Tom") Morgan was considered by his Rome colleagues last week to have excellent chances of collecting from United Press half a year's salary, plus one month's salary for each of the twelve years he has served...
...good English, so good that six have received 100% on the College Board Examination. Their manners are flawless. They are never uncouth. They obey all the major laws. Their record as public servants is unique among swank schools. And if spiritual ideals are less evident, that is no fault of Endicott Peabody...
Whatever people may think about what he writes, few practicing journalists can find professional fault with the way William Randolph Hearst writes it. Lately Washington Columnist Paul Mallon had the nerve to ask Publisher Hearst if his writings were all his own. Last week Mr Hearst replied as follows...
...snake can milk a cow, the status of slavery in Ethiopia, the hazards of existence in the Everglades, the respective fighting merits of lions and gorillas. For replying to sharp-eyed readers the experts get 50? per answer. Few members of the Explorers' Club can find technical fault with Adventure's fiction. That they might find fault with its literary content is no worry of onetime Editor Hoffman, who conducts a correspondence course in writing from his home in Carmel, N. Y. Last week to the anniversary issue he contributed a stout defense of his oldtime magazine against...