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This significant fact came to light this week when the New York Times's grey, able labor correspondent, Louis Stark, checked up on recent decisions of the Wage Adjustment Board of the Building Construction Industry, headed by Daniel W. Tracy, Assistant Secretary of Labor and longtime boss of A.F. of L.'s electrical workers union. Stark found that the Board in some cases has allowed wages to advance by more than 60% over their Jan. 1, 1941 levels. Under the Little Steel formula they could rise only...
...with Errand. In a perfect democracy, run without hitch, Truman would never have been returned to the Senate in 1940. A majority of Missouri Democrats, in full revolt against the machine, opposed him in the primary. But Attorney Milligan and ex-Governor Lloyd Crow Stark split the opposition vote, and Truman slipped in with an 8,000-vote plurality. For a nation whose Administration, army and war contractors are not perfect either, it has turned out to be a good thing...
...Absenteeism is merely a fancy word for a very plain, very stark, very ugly situation. The workers in our plants . . . are not on the job long enough, steady enough, reliably enough, and as a consequence, we are not doing a good enough job to win this...
...already has a bonnet from the Indian Confederation), the new Who's Who gave eight times as many lines as he had last year (5 to 40). Other newcomers besides MacArthur: Generalissimo and Mme. Chiang Kaishek, Harry Hopkins, Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, Admiral Harold R. Stark. Donald Nelson was in, but not Leon Henderson; Edward R. Stettinius was in, but not Henry Kaiser. Still in: Adolf Hitler; still out: Premier Hideki Tojo...
...Poetess Walker, a 27-year-old, Alabama-born English teacher, avoids the callow literary posturing that is the curse of most Negro versifiers. In this, her first book, she writes with civilized simplicity and dignity about the humanity of her people. The effect, whether in her psalmlike lyrics, her stark ballads or her biting sonnets, is often solemn and beautiful, like a black frost in the deep South...