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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McCormick starts each year with a baronial New Year's reception at the office. It is a command performance: his employees file past their morning-coated boss (a police dog mounts guard at his side), shake his hand, then pass on to the cigars and the punch bowl. Watching the show, his cousin, the late Captain Joseph Medill Patterson of the New York Daily News, once drily observed: "Bertie certainly likes to crack the whip and watch the serfs march...
...been working for Punch for 40 years and writes the pieces signed "EVOE," puts the rest of the issue out on faith. He holds no story conferences, never knows what contributions to expect until they arrive, and fills last-minute gaps by diving into the fat "unsolicited" file from readers all over the Empire. Knox does not worry about one important part of Punch: the cover has been the same since 1849, when Richard Doyle drew the now famous sketch of Punch and his dog Toby. It was adopted by Mark Lemon, the first of Punch's editors...
...Require unions to file financial reports; require a worker's written consent to having his union dues deducted by "checkoff" from his wages...
...first public speech after five months of illness, tried pleading. Said he: "Unofficial strikes are really strikes against trade unionism and against trade union democracy. If these adventures which are damaging our national economy continue . . . [they] will bring discredit upon the whole labor movement. To the trade union rank & file I would say: Resist the activities of men who bring you into conflict with your union...
Switch. That night, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez called a meeting of the political bureau. The question: should the party side with the Government of which it was a part, or with the workers of its own rank & file? Andre Marty, French Communism's third in command (a longtime opponent of Thorez' "respectable" policy of collaborating with bourgeois politics), pounded the table. Cried he: "If we allow this situation to develop, we will have broken our most important tactical rule, which is never to permit our left flank to be turned...