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After a valiant but fruitless effort to improve the sweatshop lot of working girls, Patterson went all out for Socialism. In 1906 he got in Dutch with his family by writing a bitter magazine piece called Confessions of a Drone. Excerpt: "I have an income of between $10,000 and $20,000 a year. I spend all of it. I produce nothing-am doing no work. I [the type] can keep on doing this all my life unless the present social system is changed...
...starch-stuffed Britons come out of the war as physically fit as nutrition experts say? Many Britons doubt it. Last week, in the London Observer, common-sensical Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert quarreled with nutrition statistics that "confuse existence with life." He argued: "One can exist on the fruitless, starchy, dismal diet of Britain today, but what matters is liveliness, vitality, vigor. We are being called on to make a tremendous industrial effort. . . . That needs live folk, not mere existers...
Neutral Ground. Harry Truman was now hell-bent to prevent the first travail. Just the day before, Murray and Fairless had broken up a fruitless two-day conference in U.S. Steel's Manhattan headquarters at 71 Broadway. They had come closer together than ever before, but not close enough. Phil Murray, who had originally demanded a flat raise of $2 a day, or 25? an hour, had backed down to 19½?. Ben Fairless, who had not made any offer before, had shown willingness...
This is an extraordinary and encouraging sign. Usually each side has sought to beat the other to the punch by releasing the in formation with which to defend itself against the breakdowns which marked each former fruitless session." Cooperation from the North. Russians in Manchuria waited for representatives of the Chinese Central Government...
Washington failed to get all the information it had to its field commanders. Efforts of subordinate officers to have such information sent out were unavailing. Two men were singled out by the Army Board for their fruitless but "aggressive" attempts to improve handling of intelligence. They were Colonel R. S. Bratton and Colonel Otis K. Stadtler (both still colonels...