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Next step was to confer, confer, confer. He saw nearly everyone even remotely connected with defense management; got bales of opinions, advice, ideas, tips, plain and fruity gossip. His regulated mind coldly assayed strengths and frailties, measured promise against performance. Night after night he trotted back to the calm of the White House, puzzled over his notes; through whole days read books, articles, memoranda. He tried to weigh objectives, ponder human values, disregard individual personalities. Finally he drew his conclusions, drafted three plans basically similar...
...although neither has a taste for details, they did hatch and execute on the spot two plans-a draft of war aims to put before the world and an invitation to Stalin to confer on Russia's war needs. What else they planned in the course of the leisurely conferences may pale into insignificance beside another thing that they accomplished: a meeting of minds...
...Joseph Stalin the President and Prime Minister had written suggesting that they send representatives to Moscow to confer about Russia's arms needs and saying: "Our resources, though immense, are limited, and it must become a question as to where and when those resources can best be used to further to the greatest extent our common effort...
...Mayor flatly refused to renew the contracts. He contended: 1) that the city could not legally sign a contract that permitted collective bargaining;* 2) that, although the city would continue to confer with union leaders (or anyone else), it most decidedly would not require workers to join the union and pay union dues; 3) that municipal workers had absolutely no right to strike. Liberal though the little Mayor is, to give a union the power to deprive the people of his city of essential services was more than he could stomach...
Then Harvard's President James Bryant Conant rose to confer degrees. Harvard-men applauded warmly when he made Lord Halifax a Doctor of Laws. Two or three seniors in the front row feebly cried: "Shame, shame...