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...others are dependent. And the main issue (i.e., higher pay) was the same as that which had already provoked a motor strike and promised strikes in the electric industry, in the telephone system, in a dozen vital spots in the U.S. economy. The outcome here would probably set a pattern in labor trends for the whole reconversion period...
...strikes had been bound to come; the only question was who would lead them and who would lay the pattern for settlement. After nearly four years of the wartime no-strike pledge, union officialdom was itching to show its mettle, and prove its worth to its constituents...
...Meal a Day. Elected President in 1941, Lescot fitted smoothly into the prevailing Haitian pattern of power. In the poorest, most overcrowded of Latin American republics, a wealthy mulatto elite ruled an ocean of pure blacks. Lescot ran the country under martial law, throttled the press. But even among the elite his popularity began to fade when he allowed his sons too flagrantly to acquire expropriated German property. The elite moreover became convinced that he had lost official U.S. favor. He was also identified with the ill-starred, U.S.-financed rubber-production scheme, which fizzled out in Haiti before...
...Britain can come to an agreement, it will settle the current squabble over how North Atlantic rates should 36 set. It will also set a pattern for the Morth Atlantic Conference to follow when t meets again Feb. 1, probably in Manhattan...
They Wish to be Loved. That the Germans will be allowed to scatter, Mann does not believe. He hopes (without much confidence) that a world state may develop and that the German, who never could fit into the pattern of the nations, will become a peaceable citizen of the world...