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Despite his 20 years in Paris, the Sparrow knew only one word of French-ici-but with it he could make any want known, get out of any jam. His personal freedom challenged, he would draw himself up to his full 5 ft. 2 in., wither authority with: "Where do you get that stuff...
...intimate terms. Upperclassmen had a standing prank they played on him: they would leave a note on a freshman's desk telling him to call Hanover 65 (Hoppy's number) at 6:05 in the morning and "ask for Ernie, he's in a jam." Hoppy got scores of such calls each year...
...telegram from Harry Bridges, West Coast longshoremen's chief, who was in the midst of a deportation hearing on charges of being a Communist himself. Bridges wired "wholehearted support." The 0PM summoned ranting Mickey Orton to Washington. How much it would take to break the log jam in the Northwest was a matter of speculation, but there were indications that Mr. Roosevelt was ready to use whatever force it took...
Last January TIME'S Berlin correspondent, accompanied by German officials, visited Wodehouse in prison, took him pipe tobacco, a pipe, cigarets, candy, soap, mystery books. They found him well fed ("bloated" was his word), having received Red Cross parcels and cheese, butter and jam from Denmark. He had "a sort of private room" in a house at one end of the camp where he was writing a serial for the Saturday Evening Post which he has tentatively titled Money in the Bank. His main worry was that he had not paid his U.S. income taxes. When he was told...
...vital questions are involved in the strike now going on in North American Aviation's California plant. First is the necessity of breaking the jam in the production of fighting planes, the most essential element in American defense, and restoring to production the fifth of the industry which the strike has tied up. Second, but no less important, is the right of workers to bargain collectively and freely, a right which labor seemed to have secured after eight years of the New Deal. But now the same New Deal has done an about face and the President himself has proposed...