Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Philip Murray, president of C. I. O., not only spoke in labor's defense, he cracked back. Said he: "Too many heads of industry are approaching the national-defense job as one great opportunity to roll Up astourding profits. . . ." Production lagged, he declared, because of the way it was being distributed and administered. Out of 10,000 plants available, only 30% had received Government contracts...
Knudsen represented the fact that a large segment of Business itself cooperated with the 1940 Revolution. To the other, perhaps larger, segment, he was the Revolution's most convincing legate. He spoke to them as one production man to another. He also spoke to them as Government to Business...
...coast where the tides of Manhattan's racial mixtures endlessly swirl and boil. Around him were Italians, Poles, Russians, Rumanians, Germans, living in an area of employment agencies, meat markets, secondhand clothing and furniture stores. Around him too were hordes of immigrants who knew no English. Alexander Alexandroff spoke English. French, German, Polish. Italian. Hebrew, Russian, and understood several other languages besides. Soon his neighbors began to use his office as a place to receive mail. Soon they began to rely on him to write their letters, advise them about the strange ways of the U. S., or translate...
...record spoke for itself. Mr. Stimson's explanation: that the Army, having in the first place overestimated its ability to absorb recruits, could be accused of nothing more than undue optimism. Many of those estimates were cooked up during debate on the conscription bill; many more during the Presidential campaign, when Wendell Willkie was huffing & puffing at unmade Army housing. Said Henry Stimson, with twinkling reassurance: "Estimates beforehand are only estimates. Anybody who has built a house knows that. I think that on the whole the defense work is coming along as well as could be expected...
...these last five months there have been tremendous changes. When last I spoke we had just experienced the terrific shock of the overthrow of France. Hitler seemed irresistible. First Poland had been overwhelmed, then Norway, then Holland, then Belgium. Finally came the destruction in less than a month's fighting of what had been rated as the finest army for its size in Europe, and the disarmament and division of France...