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...field of labor relations (he resigned as a management member of the War Labor Board to enter the Senate race). As last year's President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce he traveled 40,000 miles to urge U.S. businessmen to up war production. He believes in strict labor legislation, but likes to conduct his own labor relations by talking to the men themselves...
Britain's onetime War Secretary had proved his contentions by practicing them. He had chosen the Leicester Abbey because the Cistercians isolate themselves as completely as possible, adhering to a strict rule of silence. When they must communicate with one another, they use a sign language...
...troop installations, spoke to U.S. soldiers with amiable profanity: "I just want to say I'm damned glad to see you. God bless you and give 'em hell." He regretted he could not give U.S. correspondents the latest baseball news (see p. 50). When he rebuked the strict Mideast censorship a reporter cried, "Thanks...
...breach widened, a growing rumble could be heard through the artificial silence of strict censorship. When it would come, no man knew for certain. But when it did come, three centuries of frustration, dreams, mysticism, misery, disease, corruption, and heat-rotten inefficiency would spew forth. Neither the sanctimonious belief of the Raj in its own exalted trusteeship, nor Gandhi's equally sanctimonious conviction of his own purity was powerful enough to prevent it. The immediate danger was that the internal explosion would coincide with the advance of Japanese armies at the northeastern frontier and sea raids across...
...immediate conservation campaign, including strict enforcement of low driving speeds...