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Said U.S. Industrialist Roger W Straus, a Jewish layman who was one of the original founders of the National Conference of Christians & Jews: "Statesmen ot the Western world must employ all their skill" to establish international good will. "But only spiritual force will gain them the heights of their aspiration because it is only the idealistic man who has the power to give life to progress...
...horror of other Dallas garmentmakers, who are still only 20% unionized, Benny called on the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union for help. I.L.G.W.U. engineers taught him an assembly-line method of making dresses. Benny not only signed a union contract but became the first Dallas manufacturer to employ Negroes. Benny's experiment was a success: from a one-shop company with 15 machines, he expanded Nardis into five plants employing 1,100. He specialized in the use of corduroy for women's suits and dresses; last year, with a gross of $5.5 million, he topped...
...course there is a moral obligation to Mr. Burr. But the obligation is to use his money for the great good and the great need. He was a generous, wise, and devoted son of Harvard. Let us, in turn employ his gift, as he apparently intended, as broadly and as wisely...
...ready to be shipped. Within two months he expects to be in limited production in a rented Trieste factory, thinks that output will eventually hit 3,600 pairs a day of women's cheap ($4 to $6) novelty shoes. If all goes well, the Trieste Shoe Co. will employ 400 people, and let out piecework to some 2,000 others. Most of the production will go to the U.S. market. "It's a Utopian situation," says Albert Saitz, with a happy glow. "The natives are happy, Italy gets dollars, and we get a chance to make a profit...
...light, waited for the word to drop back into their own shadowy world. It was a world of conspiracy and secrecy, of Communist and informer, where the law was and is Lenin's dictum: it is necessary to "resort to all sorts of schemes and stratagems, employ illegitimate methods, conceal the truth...