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...American Federation of Labor, with its fine marble headquarters overlooking a tiny public park adorned with a statue of the late great Samuel Gompers. But the records show that the A. F. of L. has a poor score for political trading. During the War Gompers traded the credo of the Socialist-Pacifist Federation for union wages in Government shipyards and munitions plants, a swap which helped demoralize the Federation in the five following peace years, during which its membership was reduced by one-third. Hook-line-&-sinker the Federation went for the New Deal's NRA, which washed...
...feels that Harvard has fallen into the lethargy which he claims for it, the bald statement that any bungling of management can be excused on the grounds that it offers a welcome revival of enthusiasm, is an argument based on the most false hypothesis. Following such a credo, one might quite as justifiably elect a president or head coach and later renounce the choice so that interest in the election might be revived...
Until Depression Manager Gatti made Metropolitan performances pay for themselves. And although he engaged the most expensive singers he managed to set aside a surplus of $1,000,000 which lasted him into 1932. Gatti's credo, then as now, came from Verdi who once said to him: "The theatre is meant to be full-not empty." When the surplus was exhausted Metropolitan performances necessarily suffered...
...style. From his palette issued a series of rolling, tree-dotted Iowa fields done in a flat, smooth manner. His landscape of West Branch, Iowa (FORTUNE, Aug. 1932) got the birthplace of Herbert Hoover almost as much public attention as the infrequent visits of that President. Wood's credo: U. S. art suffers from a "Colonial attitude" to Europe, a feeling of cultural dependence upon the older continent. To combat this attitude Wood hose irony. His American Gothic (see reproduction) and his spectacular Daughters of Revolution, three prim spinsters against a background of Washington grossing the Delaware, were his first...
...seriously considered retiring with his profits to study law and enter public life as a reform politician. For gambling for gambling's own peculiar thrill he had no love. His speculations were for profit only. More than that he was a speculator on moral principle. His credo: "I am a speculator and make no apologies for it. The word comes from the Latin speculari-to observe. I observe...