Word: justness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Touring a rubber factory (nonunion) he laid out his labor line. The Taft-Hartley Act was designed to cut down the power of labor bosses, he explained, just as the Sherman Act had been designed to cut down the power of covetous industrialists. Carbon-begrimed workers, some of them Amishmen...
One big change in the new cloth is the abandonment of cotton, which Everett Nutter's older brother William first wove with mohair in 1906 to produce the original Palm Beach cloth. The new cloth will have just about as much mohair, but the "scratch" will be taken out...
The kids around Chicago's tough, slummy Division Street had a game called Let Her Fly. It was easy to learn, and it was a dandy game because it made the winner feel good and the loser feel terrible. All the player had to do was wrap up some...
Shrapnel in the Liver. At 29, Frankie Majcinek had just one salable skill. In the dealer's slot at Schwiefka's gambling joint, he dealt cards with the impersonal fairness and nerveless accuracy of a machine. "Frankie Machine," the Division Street punks called him, or just Dealer. "That...
From that point on to its tragic end, most of Call It Treason is Happy's story. His plane had been spotted, and he found himself in a world where everybody seemed to be talking about spies. He had moments of luck (trucks that picked him up at just...