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...decided that Communists had infiltrated the union. Also, as he began to gain a reputation as a long-winded but conscientious political writer, he began to feel uppity about being lumped with clerks, office boys and stenographers in one union. He quit. The individualist Ball emerged in full flower...
...Whined a flower girl on the steps of lamplit St. Paul's Cathedral: "All my flowers shriveled up, and the buds go brown with frost. Politics, I don't understand 'em. It's warmth I want...
...heat. Dickins & Jones's big store was almost empty. It had one dissatisfied customer, who tried hard in the dark to distinguish between silk and linen materials. She muttered: "Drat this! I thought we'd finished with blackouts." In Fortnum & Mason's flower department a girl clerk said crossly: "I wish people wouldn't be so goodhearted about it all ... then maybe something could be done...
...With that Act Hull had attacked the economic nationalism of high tariffs-not only in the U.S. but in all countries. Hull did not advocate unrestricted free trade but trade free of "malignant restrictions''; he demanded reasonable tariffs reduced reciprocally for mutual benefit. This was the delicate flower which Under Secretary of State Will Clayton now cultivated...
...mushroom-shaped chapels, to be named the White, Blue, Rose and Yellow Chapels respectively, each with a "Slumber Room" for bodies lying in state. Also planned: a pyramidal structure lopped off at the top to provide a landing field for helicopters, a tall-spired kiosk to serve as a flower booth, and a two-story office building where the bereaved will be consulted, tombstones sold, and living space provided for a four-man night shift...