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...Labor Board, rock-solid defender of Little Steel, finally conceded that his prize formula was outmoded. In a monthly report to the Senate he said: "As the months flow by and the board continues to hold wages ... we become increasingly conscious of the fact that we are asking one segment of our society to do its part to protect all Americans from the ravages of inflation . . . [although] a similar obligation has not been placed as heavily upon . . . some of the other segments of this society...
...good or evil, to believe or not to believe, the charge in effect was that modern Jewry, or at least a powerful segment of it, was conspiring to arm an illegal army variously estimated to number from 30,000 to 80,000 or more trained fighting...
This was what Franklin Roosevelt had been waiting for. Now the President rolled up his verbal shirt sleeves, whammed one segment of the U.S. press smack on the end of its nose-for-news...
...Simple Segments. Al Browning's favorite rule is that "any problem can be solved if broken down into simple segments." There is plenty of simple-segment thinking in his contract termination policy. Instead of setting up inflexible rules, the policy leaves a lot to the common sense of the two men who know most about the contract and must settle it, i.e., the contracting officer and the manufacturer. One of General Browning's great problems: getting contracting officers with common sense and responsibility...
...Department No. 3 is that segment of U.S. foreign relations which Franklin Roosevelt reserves for himself, working through miscellaneous aides. This segment has expanded ever since the start of World War II, includes matters handled by Assis tant Secretaries Adolf Berle and Dean Acheson,and others handled by such quasi-foreign-relations agencies as OEW, OFRRO and the Nelson Rockefeller Committee...