Word: hancockers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Benefits. Then Jimmy Byrnes came to grips with the question of dismissal pay for war workers. The Administration has pointedly ignored labor's demands for pay to tide over the men suddenly washed out of war jobs. The Baruch-Hancock report (TIME, Feb. 28) had likewise sidestepped the issue. Now Jimmy Byrnes flatly opposed such pay. He objected that "the dismissal wage would bear no exact relation to the needs of the workers. Some who might quickly find new jobs would get more than they needed, while others would get less." He recognized that there is certain...
Henry Shapiro, correspondent for the United Press in Moscow, will speak at the oFrd Hall Forum in John Hancock Hall Sunday evening. Shapiro, who just returned from Russia, after distinguishing himself by being the first newspaperman to visit the Stalingrad front, will discuss "The Latest Word from the Russian Front...
Adventure in Prosperity. The prime feature of the Baruch Report is its solid optimism". The shrewd oldster and his white-thatched "junior partner," John Milton Hancock, 61, said bluntly: "There is no need for a postwar depression." Far from cringing at the unknown terrors of the future, the optimistic Ancients buoyantly proclaimed that the conversion job, if competently managed, "should be an adventure in prosperity." Cried Author Baruch to Scripps-Howard's Henry J. Taylor: "If the program carries the scream of the American eagle, it is because I feel that the old bird in its own right deserves...
...wisdom, which is as platitudinous as most wisdom in that it concentrates on the all-too-often-forgotten obvious things, which are so often the fundamentals. As Clausewitz contributed to military science such statements as "the overthrow of the Enemy [is] the aim of military action," so Messrs. Baruch & Hancock advise the U.S.: "Transition from a war economy to that of peace is not easy; nothing worth-while...
...with every special interest in & out of Government demanding particulars, Messrs. Baruch & Hancock took a cold look at policy problems in general-and drew obvious conclusions. The great service that the report performed for the nation was that it dumped a lot of particular problems into one package and suggested some common-sense ways to lick them before they could lick the nation...