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...staff together for a "harmony" meeting, asked Wilson to say "a few words." Said Wilson: "I have already resigned." In a letter to President Roosevelt he accused Nelson's friends of planting newspaper stories calculated to make his life unbearable. "I cannot answer them unless I employ publicity experts," Wilson wrote. F.D.R. sent him home with a "Dear Charlie" letter and praise for "outstanding service...
Miss Webster, whose company was among the first to employ Negroes together with whites in major roles, also cautioned against using members of minorities in parts artificially in conflict with the author's conception of the role. She also warned that attempts to suppress productions which showed individual members of minorities in an unfavorable light can be carried to an extreme which could make all theatre ridiculous...
...Senator, heading his famed war investigating committee, Harry Truman in 1942 had declared forthrightly: "No man can honestly serve two masters . . . The committee is opposed to taking free services from people with axes to grind . . ." Now necessity had changed his mind. He announced that henceforth the Government may employ persons of "outstanding experience and ability, without compensation," allowing them to keep drawing salaries from private sources while working for the Government...
...court while Bureau of Standards investigators recited how they had been short-weighed on 50 chickens bought at A & P stores. John stormed back to the Graybar Building determined to cull out all such flipmagilding. He sat down and personally signed letters to 40,000 men & women in his employ warning them, on penalty of discharge, that every A & P customer "must get 16 ounces to every pound." Moreover, John set up a big board at headquarters to mark every supermarket's quarterly showing, raised hob whenever one turned up the white card indicating a "stock gain...
...Knowingly to employ a Communist in the Government becomes a criminal offense...