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Summing up the Hiss-Chambers case, the committee reported that Hiss had been "vague and evasive," while Chambers had been "forthright and emphatic." "The verifiable portions of Chambers' testimony," the committee said, "have stood up strongly; the verifiable portions of the Hiss testimony have been badly shaken." The hearing has "definitely shifted the burden of proof from Chambers to Hiss...
Last week, in the musty old Observer office, there was hardly a ripple when a bright young man took over as editor. He was forthright David Astor, 36, whose grandfather bought the paper from Lord Northcliffe one year before young David was born. He took the tiller from Editor Ivor Brown, who returned to his favorite pursuits of drama critic and essayist. In Brown's six-year term, the Observer had gone nonpartisan, and become a better all-round paper (except to Tories) than Lord Kemsley's rival Sunday Times...
...Hopkins' WPA: "[Harry] was not priming the pump; he was just turning on the fireplug." He indignantly described an undercover effort by Henry Wallace to get him out of the Cabinet. Wrote he of Henry in a 1938 diary entry: "Henry Wallace is a selfish and not too forthright individual who is so consumed with his political ambition that there isn't anything that he won't do to advance himself, even at the cost of injury to someone else...
...this time G.M. and the U.A.W. were not exchanging four-letter epithets. They were hard at work on a new kind of contract. To "the U.A.W.'s threat of a strike and demands which totaled 45? an hour, G.M.'s grey, forthright President Charles E. Wilson had thought up a surprisingly dulcet answer...
...down strike, the second longest sit-down in U.S. labor history. But when handsome Stuart Symington (now Secretary of the Air Force) took over as Emerson's president, labor relations began to settle down. Symington and Sentner sized each other up; each found the other a forthright, levelheaded man of his word. Working together, they put into effect a successful labor-management plan and a profit-sharing program. Emerson, swollen to 11,000 workers, was one of the few big plants in St. Louis to come through the war without labor trouble...