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Despite his age, Dan Willard never slipped behind the times. The only sign in his office reads: "Suggestions are always in order." Over 40,000 suggestions have come from the rank & file-many of which Uncle Dan adopted. He helped pioneer air-conditioned cars, plugged for 2? passenger fares on the Eastern roads. Though he holds twelve honorary degrees and has a place on the Johns Hopkins Board, he prizes most the degree his employes gave him at a big dinner in 1931: Doctor of Humanity in the University of Life and Labor...
Last year Abend was warned by a Japanese friend to cross-examine his servants. Abend asked questions, found that one had been offered a bribe by a Japanese gendarme to put "some papers" in Abend's file. Another had refused $500 to put a box of opium and two loaded revolvers in Abend's car. When Abend complained, the Japanese said: So sorry. "The leader of the plot . . . is being sent back to Japan in chains...
...widespread was the Communist taint? Ford's Harry Bennett charged that C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers were Communist-controlled. Mr. Bennett was exaggerating. A Red faction exists in the U.A.W. rank & file, but the union's top officials are definitely antiCommunist. In aircraft, which U.A.W. is also trying to organize, Communists have crept a little higher. U.A.W. President Roland Jay Thomas has ordered the union's new chief aircraft organizer, Richard Frankensteen, to clean the Communists...
Last week New York City's Selective Service (draft) headquarters issued the following handout: ". . . Our paper work is endless and, in 99% of the cases, of only official interest. The remaining one per cent occasionally brightens our day. Herewith is a file of the more curious communications [from draft registrants, their friends, et al.]. Names of people and towns have been changed. Otherwise the wording is verbatim." Some of the communications...
Applications are available at the Student Employment Office, L University Hall, Cambridge. Members of the Classes of 1942, 1943, and 1944 who plan to reside in the Houses during 1941-1942 are eligible to apply. Students who have worked under the Plan in the past must file new applications for the coming year...