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...well might. For the President loves good news and Harold Smith almost never brings any. Every other Administration visitor can occasionally pop in with cheerful tidings. But not Harold Smith: he brings a brief case of woe, problems, figures, trouble, which he and the President must face up to forthwith...
...Federation of Labor. The news came as a mighty shock to millions : What was John Lewis up to now? The move was the result of secret negotiations, mainly between Lewis and big Bill Hutcheson, head of the Carpenters' Union, who once called Lewis a big bastard and was forthwith knocked flat. And the announcement came, fittingly enough, from the lips of pious-faced Bill Green, whom Lewis originally made president of A.F. of L., and later denounced as a "faithless ingrate" (and many other things). Summoning reporters to his office, Bill Green took quiet revenge, smugly smiled...
...Forthwith, she went off on a coast-to-coast tour. "The idea," said smooth, tough Post Managing Editor Alexander F. ("Casey") Jones, "was that she should talk to everybody she could. It was a tough assignment for a woman her age. . . . She has had to ride bad trains, stand in line for food, spend many hours at night talking to wives of soldiers and mothers who were working in war factories. . . . She did a swell...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia had dreamed of marching to glory as a brigadier general. Last week he discovered that he was merely an expendable. When word got around that little Butch was going to North Africa, men uprose on Capitol Hill to thunder: "Political generals!" Forthwith Fiorello was dumped overboard by the President, a casualty of Franklin Roosevelt's new policy of appeasing Congress...
This still left a loophole for the duck-bottomed little Mayor: he could become a colonel without Senate confirmation. New howls were heard. Forthwith Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson announced that the Mayor was rendering such useful service in New York that...