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...with the craft unions, with industry management and with the Communists. Lee Pressman became general counsel for the C.I.O., and other Communists rose to positions of great power. For a while, Communists and anti-Communists each thought they were using the other. Phil Murray at length decided to get rid of his Reds, but he was not fully successful until the Taft-Hartley Act (which he hated) came...
...Corporation's problem, then, is to rid itself of that nagging drain on its cherished and fast-diminishing hoard. A vigorous appeal for more endowed funds is the most obvious solution, and, assuming success, by far the best. A band of faithfuls, talking briskly in terms of millions, began such a drive last year, hoping to raise $2,000,000 by the January, 1954 deadline. Despite all the trumpeting throughout the nation about returning Faith to education, only a pitiful $600,000 has been pledged so far. There is no use in analyzing this gloomy result, nor is anything gained...
Physicians themselves are partly to blame for the public's ignorance, the Journal complains, because some of them like to take a nip in cold weather. The ironic truth: alcohol may really do more good in the tropics, by dilating blood vessels and helping the body to get rid of excess heat...
Just as candidly, the defendants told the court why they had been so anxious to get rid of the boss: Jones, a great whisky salesman (he built Old Schenley's sales in Boston by passing out Blarney-stone rings to barkeeps as a sales incentive), had begun drinking so heavily that clients were complaining, and the agency had lost three big accounts. Moreover, the defendants charged that Jones paid $400 a month to two of his sisters for "premium ideas" which were seldom used by the agency, and $8,000 a year to a brother, Alfred Jones...
...criticized McCarthy and then spoke for the election of Jenner and Mccarthy and failed to rid himself of these concessions when the Nixon fund was revealed...