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...such pleasant obstacles were minor compared to those which began to confront the building gang after the prefabricated materials and equipment had made the perilous ocean trip in 30 shiploads and had been piled up on the 15-acre site on the unoccupied English landscape...
...crisp new diploma and returning a little more than a quarter century later to establish a highly efficient purchasing office in place of a mess of independent budgeteers, William G. Morse tried his hand at a hundred different jobs. One-time chauffeur, salesman, laborer, riveter, puncher, fitter, inspector, gang boss, foreman, grain merchant, retailer, jobber, manufacturer--he has the broad knowledge of buying, selling, testing, and using, needed to handle wisely the spending of millions of dollars on items ranging from bottled stallion urine to Business School dormitories...
...city streets, Joe got along better. When his gang started something, Joe finished it. One day in 1931, one of his pals persuaded him to go to the Brewster St. Recreation Center (a settlement house in the heart of Detroit's "black bottom"). There Joe learned to box. At first he disliked it, preferred handball. But within a year, Joe Barrow was the best fighter in the Center, won a silver cup as the most outstanding novice light-heavyweight in Detroit's Golden Gloves tournament...
...loyalty to his old gang was a rock on which his marriage nearly foundered. To please one pal, he sank $30,000 in the Brown Bomber softball team; to please another, he sank $42,000 in the Brown Bomber Chicken Shack, a Detroit eatery. He has been known to pay a check for $1,000 after his "secretary" (another pal) entertained some frisky friends in a Har lem cabaret...
They were there, as their expense accounts showed, but otherwise it was an unkind and entirely unwarranted dig. Perhaps the White House gang would forget it in time, but they were powerfully disillusioned. Last week most of them felt that it was the end of a beautiful friendship. If so, it betokened more than that: the beginning of a new era in White House press relations...