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...begins in Erskine Caldwell's novels (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre). But this new Caldwell story will not give many readers trouble, for it reads throughout like a complete travesty of the author's previous method. Journeyman is the story of an itinerant preacher. Semon Dye, the "potentest" man that ever drove a ramshackle remnant of a Model T Ford down a Georgia turnpike. Semon is a crap-shooting, corn-guzzling, philandering highbinder with a gimlet eye and a ready pistol...
...which the Grays and Reynolds do not. Brother James, onetime Mayor of the city, is head of Hanes Hosiery Mills, one of the largest rayon hosiery concerns in the South. Brother Robert is president of Winston-Salem's biggest bank, Wachovia Bank & Trust. Brother Ralph is head of Hanes Dye & Finishing Co. Brother Alex handles Winston-Salem's biggest brokerage accounts as head of the Chas. D. Barney branch. Brother Frederick moved a few miles away to Duke University, where he is head of the medical department...
...Allied Chemical & Dye built its Hopewell nitrate plant...
...last May. Mr. Lee, by whom John D. Rockefeller was metamorphosed from a corporate monster into a benevolent old philanthropist, told the committee that he had for years been public relations counsel at $3,000 a year for the U. S. affiliate of Interessen Gemeinschaft Farbenindustrie, the great German dye trust. Last year, when Hitler came into power, the home office of I. G. Farbenindustrie retained Mr. Lee at $25,000 per year, "because they were very much concerned about the beginning of the boycott and wanted to know what could be done and what influence they could exert with...
...Berlin last week young Lee resented being called "a go-between for anybody." Cried he: "Father's $25,000 contract with the German dye trust calls merely for giving his best advice on methods of improving German-American relations. This is a perfectly business-like contract...