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Mortimer strongly suspects that the AFL entered a "gentlemen's agreement" with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), mass production industries and in return NAM, would not molest AFL craft unions. From every level of activity Mortimer met resistance from the AFL Executive Council. Yet he realized, "While the shortcomings of the AFL were many, and very irritating, we recognized that it remained the center of union activity in the country. The 1935 AFL convention in Atlantic City provided the opening for Lewis's CIO split and Mortimer's home for the new forming...
...they can't. What's the sense of worrying about it. Give it your best and if you can't do it, why you can't. If the other guy is better, then he should win." I guess many would say that this isn't the Ivy League, gentlemen's way of doing things. Perhaps the same could be said of equal treatment...
...some of the gentlemen that signed up to play football for the Freaks were masters of self-delusion. One of them wept openly when that big hand descended upon his shoulder and he was told that no, there just wasn't a place for him on the Big Team. You'd think that you were taking bread out of his family's mouth or something, the way he carried on, slamming his helmet around, wailing like a goddamned banshee...
...devoted to creating The Godfather (in words and pictures) and growing rich. "The only thing was," he confesses, "I felt very unnatural being out of debt." The Godfather was written entirely from research. It was only afterward, Puzo reports with appropriate delicacy, that "I was introduced to a few gentlemen related to the material. They refused to believe that I had never had the confidence of a don. But all of them loved the book...
This year's nominations were altogether perverse. Although legends of ballot-stuffing are legion, usually the good ladies and gentlemen of the Academy pick the films they feel are good for the industry image. How anyone could back an out-and-out stinker like Nicholas and Alexandra while there were greater moneymakers of far greater quality in the offing--Sunday. Bloody Sunday, McCabe and Mrs. Miller. Little Murders. Straw Dogs--is beyond the understanding of rational man. (Especially as Nick and Alex was produced independently...