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According to O'Donnell, the soldier Patton slapped in Sicily was Jewish. Somehow, not very clearly explained, Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Sidney Hillman and White House Aide David K. Niles subsequently got the General's scalp...
...British Labor's ultraconservative, Red-hating Sir Walter Citrine. As late as a fortnight ago, Sir Walter still had his doubts about W.F.T.U. But at Paris Russia's Michael P. Tarasov was most conciliatory. Between the Communists and the Citrine group, the C.I.O.'s wily Sidney Hillman threaded a complex skein of compromise...
...sweetness & light was almost unbelievable. When a reporter who knew his laborites suggested that perhaps Citrine had inspired a recent attack on the C.I.O., Hillman rasped: "That is a vicious, dirty thought, and it could only come from a dirty mind...
With the House already adjourned, no law could be enacted until fall. By then, Sidney Hillman promised, his Political Action Committee would see that everybody in the country knew that the wage floor must be jacked...
Testing centers were set up in Birmingham's filling stations, theater lobbies, churches, every available public gathering place. A huge serological laboratory in a basement of Hillman Hospital, at the University of Alabama's medical school, examined as many as 15,000 blood specimens a day. The city blossomed with placards announcing "free treatment for syphilis." While they were about it, health officials offered voluntary gonorrhea treatments, exhorting the citizenry by posters, newspapers and spot radio announcements, with the promise: "PENICILLIN CURES GONORRHEA IN FOUR HOURS." The U.S. Public Health Service came across with the penicillin...