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John Lewis exploded, termed WLB "that group of little strutting men." But after an order by Franklin Roosevelt, he sent his miners back to work. For 24 hours it seemed that John Lewis had eaten crow. Then he let it be known that he had merely proclaimed another truce. Barring a sudden retreat by either side (in Illinois this week coal operators agreed to a $1.50 raise), Strike III will begin June...
...narrow path comes like a ribbon over a hill miles away, down a long slope, across a creek, up a slope and over another hill. All along the length of this ribbon there is now a thin line of men. For four days and nights they have fought hard, eaten little, washed none, and slept hardly at all. Their nights have been violent with attack, fright, butchery, and their days sleepless and miserable with the crash of artillery...
Said meek Governor Arnall, after Franklin Roosevelt's visit: "I don't subscribe to this moth-eaten doctrine of states' rights...
Steinberg's drawings, which have most frequently appeared in The New Yorker, have a timeless, durable, hieroglyphic quality, as if their acid comments on human affairs had eaten into stone. Steinberg has a great liking for bits of ornamental detail (they are almost his trademark) as in his drawing of Hermann Göring drenched with medals. One of the outstanding drawings in his show portrayed the two sparsely clad Axis dictators in a theater dressing room ("Benito & Adolf-Aryan Dancers...
Only after the prince has departed does the preoccupied Saint-Exupery remember he has neglected to draw a strap to hold the muzzle in place. Says he: "Look up at the sky. Ask yourselves: Is it yes or no? Has the sheep eaten the flower? And you will see how everything changes...