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...second largest metropolis, two striking conclusions. The conclusions: 1) many do not enjoy living there, although almost no one would want to move away; 2) "The transfer to Washington of the basic ideas concerning the economy has reduced the New York financier to the status of a highly paid clerk. ... It is scarcely a heroic role. And it is scarcely a role upon which to sustain-let alone increase-the power of a great city. If New York had never played a more creative role than this in the formation of the capital of the country, the city would never...
...scheme. Strike sympathizers were asked to adopt strikers, paying $5 a week for maintenance. Last week the Guild placed its 89th strike baby. The adopter: CIO Chieftain John Llewellyn Lewis, who already has two children of his own. The adoptee: 22-year-old Ann Tonchick, good-humored, unglamorous onetime clerk in the Herex's bookkeeping department, who has never seen her foster father but is all set to call him "Pappa...
When the Y. M. C. A. was a pious dream in the mind of a British draper's clerk, George Williams, it came near being a less easily pronounceable set of initials-the Y. M. R. A. (Young Men's Religious Association). Williams, a plugger who became a partner in the firm, married his partner's daughter and eventually was knighted by Queen Victoria, finally settled on the name "Christian" instead of "Religious," stipulated that only evangelical Christians could join his association...
Facts adduced: 1) many a Congressman digs into his own pocket to pay an extra clerk: 2) Congressional mail has increased 30% to 40% in the last eight years; 3) the demands of constituents for personal services, information, political nose-wiping of every sort burden the laziest members of the House, multiply the burdens of Congressmen who try to do more than run errands. Facts not denied: 1) many a Congressional relative does roost on the House payroll, even though he or she may have to work for the privilege while Congress is in session; 2) short-handed though many...
...convocation of Parliament to hear the Royal assent to a series of bills (a U. S.-Canada trade agreement, a wheat subsidy, the Dominion budget), something brand-new to Canada and a prerogative of the King-Emperor almost forgotten in England. At each the King nodded, and the deputy clerk droned "His Majesty doth assent." But as a warning that no individual may supersede Parliament, Ottawa's seven old men of the Supreme Court filed into the Senate chamber and plumped down on a big circular woolsack, from which they could symbolically keep an eye on everyone. After that...