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...repatriation of men against their will and the refusal of the right of asylum ... to those who, for grave reasons, wish to fix their residence elsewhere...
...that way' went the rounds of the mountains and valleys along with the news about the contagious abortion in the Helwig herd of Jerseys and the impotency of the Green bull." " 'Drop up some evening with six dollars,'" said the abortionist, " 'and I'll fix you good as new. . . . Took care of Mrs. Smith when she was six months along and got rid of three for my own wife at three months. Just a plain old-fashioned buttonhook...
Allison's coworker, Italian-born, Nobel-Prizeman Enrico Fermi, was in the same fix. Of him a colleague said: "He's a tougher character and good at saying no. He refused to do administrative work. He doesn't have a phone and refused to have a secretary. General Groves hates my guts. But he hates Fermi's guts worse...
...above all he would be remembered for his work during the war years when, as F.D.R.'s agent, he was the confidential troubleshooter sent to fix the hotboxes and burnt-out bearings of the worldwide coalition which won World War II. He was the prodder and pusher for more war production, the passionate pleader for unity, the go-between from Roosevelt to Churchill and Stalin. He was and regarded himself as an instrument, with the selflessness of an instrument...
...Truman Administration for the present labor troubles: "When V-J day arrived, the Government hastily removed the controls and supervision over wages and labor conditions ... at the very time that constructive economic leadership was vitally needed. . . . Then belatedly [it] went to the other extreme and sought to specifically fix wage rates by its own decision. . . . The role of government in a free people . . . should be to bring together all of the economic groups involved and the leadership of both political parties and ... to develop agreement on a basic economic policy...