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The differences were more than alphabetical. Russia, not a member of I.F.T.U., had the biggest bloc of votes in W.F.T.U. For reasons closely connected with this fact, the A.F. of L. stayed with the ghost of the old organization and had no truck with the new one.
New emergency agencies, with impressive titles and alphabetical nicknames, sprang up, and more were to come : PWA, NRA, HOLC, SEC. CCC meant unemployed boys from grey Brooklyn streets in the green Pacific Northwest woods; PWA meant big concrete dams rising on the Tennessee and the Columbia. WPA meant leaf-raking...
"Coming across" has been the leitmotiv of the Somoza regime. Cattlemen pay through import-&-export levies, marketing and slaughtering licenses. Gold-mine operators pay through special "taxes." Those who deal in mahogany, cinchona bark, milk, hides, tallow, cement and liquor pay in devious but nonetheless painful ways. Nicaraguans quip about...
The "Big Putsch" on Mellon Hall has ended with the end-of-the-alphabet boys in complete control of entry D. Rumor has it that one or two of the rooms are slightly crowded. We wouldn't know, but when we asked Johnny Pugh what he was doing on the...
His first offering was edgy satire indeed. Excerpts from the alphabetical primer: