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...legislators he preached the sermon with which he had stumped the country earlier (TIME, Feb. 8)-if the U.S. could understand the hell of battlefronts it would not worry about eight hours a day, doubletime for holidays, overtime. He stepped up labor's fury by denouncing a Fourth Term (see below); he emphasized a personal note...
...runty, bowlegged little men in cheap, stained uniforms, half of them wearing spectacles, only one out of every 25 armed with a machine gun, the rest carrying .25-caliber rifles. They were drenched in old sweat - "you could smell a troop of Japs 100 feet away . . . they smelt like hell...
...Jimmy Byrnes's fight to stem the whole inflation tide. Same day the order was announced, WLB turned down the request of 180,000 meat packers for a wage increase. It was clear that the Administration has now definitely decided to stick by the Little Steel formula, come hell or high water. The new work week, with its overtime pay, was an effort to make all future wage demands appear unpatriotically selfish...
...unable to forgive his wife her lover, took a mistress named Constance Field, whose letters are perhaps the best thing in the novel. They began with the noisome clatter, wit, self-love and tinny ribaldry of an avid young female intellectual. They moved toward maturity and then into a hell soon matched by the hell Authoress Howe constructs for her hero...
...Kurd's hell was his confusion of conscience and cowardice. He was too cowardly to try again with his wife or even to admit sympathy for her; too cowardly to ask her to divorce him; too cowardly to admit to himself that Constance had anything to do with his desire for divorce; too cowardly to break the news, when Barbara did divorce him, to their daughter; too cowardly, finally, to marry Constance when that became possible. In his misery he found a return to the womb-a girl named Briggsy...