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Dismissal. Last week, after five postponements of the trial, district court judges dismissed the charges on recommendation of County Prosecutor Raymond Magee. Said Magee: the evidence was "incomplete." To Galveston, the dismissal of the indictment came as no surprise. Said the weekly Galveston Times, owned by Mayor Herbert Y. Cartwright Jr.: "Most Galvestonians will approve the action of County Attorney Magee [because they] have never felt that . . . gambling is a felony...
...Cutoff Point. The telephone rang. Chairman Cartwright answered. It was a customer making an inquiry. The board chairman was just framing an answer when the switchboard operator cut him off the line. Cartwright hung up and the telephone rang again. It was another customer. The switchboard operator's piping voice cut in to explain: "I can't get any answer from the sales department, Mr. Cartwright." Chairman Cartwright's overloaded temper burst forth to Managing Director Pethybridge, who started to agree: "Of course people must go out for cups of tea in the middle of the morning...
Chairman William Cartwright mopped his brow and thought a moment. What was the now-lost customer's complaint? Something about "Light Brunswick Green"? The chairman sent for a can of the paint in question. There it was, marked with the firm's label, "Light Brunswick Green." He opened it. The paint was bright...
Coldly Polite. Chairman William Cartwright of Cartwright's Ltd. thought long and hard. What could he do? Fire someone? Fire several? That would get action all right-union meetings, strikes, talk, arbitration-everything but paint. What was the use? He made his decision, called a secretary and dictated a letter firing every one of his 70 employees, from Managing Director Pethybridge on down. "With this inefficiency," he explained, "we would all be out of jobs permanently in a few weeks anyway...
...reaction was immediate: 90% of Cartwright's workers admitted that they hadn't been doing their best, and promised faithfully to work harder if their jobs were given back. A few miffed workers, mostly women in the office, took their wounded pride to other employment offices. "We girls naturally resent being told we are inefficient," said the delinquent switchboard operator stiffly. "We will do our jobs until our notice expires, then go. We shall be coldly polite." But the coolness was soon made up for by a gush of warm good wishes from other harassed businessmen applauding Cartwright...