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...construction industry (2,400,000 employes, $11,200,000,000 gross) was thrown into turmoil last week by a tough-sounding Washington press handout: the new Supply Priorities & Allocation Board would ban every bit of construction which could not qualify as defense or "essential to the health and safety of the people...
...point is any reminder given of Nazi cruelty and lawlessness," the bishop thundered in protest to Secretary Stimson. "We know you will be shocked immeasurably." He added that the handout "might well have been written by Goebbels," and said to newsmen: "Some court-martials might be in order...
Last week New York City's Selective Service (draft) headquarters issued the following handout: ". . . Our paper work is endless and, in 99% of the cases, of only official interest. The remaining one per cent occasionally brightens our day. Herewith is a file of the more curious communications [from draft registrants, their friends, et al.]. Names of people and towns have been changed. Otherwise the wording is verbatim." Some of the communications...
Alfred E. Smith: "Given four years more, the third-term candidate will lead you over the hills to the poorhouse and the government handout...
Lest this proposed handout get South America into bad habits, Berle and friends proposed to attach a rider: Latin Americans, to get help for their surpluses, must also agree to scale down their production of competitive and unmarketable crops, produce strategic materials which the U. S. needs instead. At that point the emergency scheme would dovetail into large schemes (such as a long-term capital bank) for the hemisphere's economic integration. This week, spurred by France's surrender, Secretaries Hull, Morgenthau, Wallace and Hopkins united in announcing that some such plan lay right around the corner...