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...shall be glad to agree with you, if you wish to make a settlement, that it was a coincidence that of all the players who saw action that day, it should be a "Duck" who proved to be most capable of navigating the waters of Soldiers Field...
...demonstrably unworkable and outmoded Stimson Doctrine into the ashcan which it would certainly grace-better than it does the minds of State Department savants, and recognize as graciously as possible any government howsoever radical that is established. Such an attitude would have a salutary effect that would make the settlement of the fundamental problem of the fate of foreign capital in Cuba immeasurably easier. NEMO...
...night alarms made her nerves jumpy. At the Gietradis house, where the whole family slept in one room, she was warned to look out for the old man, but what disturbed her rest was the epileptic lodger throwing a fit. On a visit to the disreputable nearby settlement of Seldom Seen, where the women were all prostitutes and the men mostly black, a half-crazy Negress attacked her in the middle of the night with a razor. Young Johnny, Slovakian miner out on strike, fell in love with her, confessed his literary ambitions and showed her the outline...
...simply in the fact that the compliance board was outrageously biased in favor of the employer in most disputes, but in this; that the process of mediation will be stepped up to something more than the snailspace which is causing such widespread disillusion with the entire scheme of dispute-settlement. In strikes, the element of time is absolutely vital to the union involved; and delay in arbitration may quash the walk-out more surely, more disappointingly than an army of thug-scabs...
...worthy if forgotten Department of Labor. The President's very excusable regard for the Board as a member of the larger body of the N. R. A. ought not to blind him to the disadvantages consequent upon setting up two bureaucracies with approximately the same objective: the settlement of industrial dislocations. To have the two organizations covering a common territory with slightly varying policy (the Labor Department being the more Leftist of the twain), has lead not only to a dis-economy of effort but very real friction. Turning the mediation work of the N.R.A. back to its proper setting...