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...Baruch accepted a new indoor job last week. The job: 1) to put muscle into the Administration's fight against inflation; 2) to pull together the masses of Washington's postwar plans. This was a task of dazing magnitude, because probably all Government postwar domestic policy will be based on the Old Man's findings. His staff: mostly his present right-hand man, Banker John Hancock. The office: "I don't know where definitely. But a park bench is too flippant for this...
Wage Floor. The implications of a worldwide minimum wage are enormous. Its proposal by a member of an Empire Government, even in unofficial capacity, is arresting. Was he thinking of China? India? the Malay States? Or was he groping for some Archimedean machine to pull Britain, the U.S., Russia into line on a world trade basis? Morrison said only that his purpose was to eliminate "that worst of all forms of competition, which is based on the abject poverty and misery of the workers in socially backward countries...
...corner and that, once the corner was turned, the Germans would be smashed in a matter of days; the German transportation system had already collapsed, and was, of course, the reason for Hitler's backing out of Russia; the German Army, particularly its Prussian core, was about to "pull a Badoglio," and throw Hitler to the wolves...
Tomorrow's game may turn out to be a battle of double-shifts, or Victory Shifts as they are now called. Although Tufts hasn't used the play this year, the Jumbos did pull it in a scrimmage here two years ago, and Manly has said that he expected to fight fire with fire in case Harvard uses it, which Harvard is sure...
Carl Derman is meditating deeply these days on the merits of having one's profile engraved in famous places. He tried to pull a Barrymore on the steps of Harvard Union by imprinting his handsome face in that hallowed cement. The trouble was, the cement had long since dried and Mr. Berman has been making periodical retreats to Sick Bay ever since. (P. S.: He really stumbled...