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...walked out over a 4? reduction in piecework pay. (One of the 16 strikers was round-faced, Russian-born Bessie Abramovitz, whom Hillman later married.) For three weeks, more & more workers left their sweatshops until the 16 strikers had become 41,000. Each night there were meetings, usually at Hull House, addressed by Welfare Worker Jane Addams, Lawyer Clarence Darrow, and the strike leaders...
...confused with one-eyed Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, who smilingly conferred with Secretary Hull while Pearl Harbor was attacked...
Hissed Cissie: "If the Army really needs ALL the able-bodied young men it can get," it can find in Secretary Hull's fold "an assortment of rich, able-bodied and unmarried boys of no particular use to anyone. ... There are plenty of intelligent girls available to more than adequately fill the jobs of these young...
...Violent, Unfair." At his next press conference, Cordell Hull angrily detailed the deferment record, age and marital status of every career man whose picture Cissie had printed. All but four, he announced, are overseas, many in jobs of direct military assistance. No man under 26 in his department is draft-deferred. Publicly, the whip-tongued old Secretary called Cissie's tirade "violent and unfair, grossly unfair." His private comments were probably purple...
...name of Cordell Hull occurs just once in Sumner Welles's book on the past, present & future of U.S. foreign policy. Inasmuch as former Undersecretary of State Welles quit his post because of basic differences between himself and Mr. Hull, such diplomatic restraint might argue a mealymouthed, chilly and platitudinously correct book. Surprisingly enough, Mr. Welles writes a sprightly prose, hits straight from the shoulder when he is discussing what he considers State Department mistakes, and plants himself flat-footedly on the issues which he holds to be important...