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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally the Governor showed up in person on Staten Island, where his administration is starting a $5 million project for converting Army barracks into temporary housing for veterans. Wearing his inevitable Homburg with the preciseness of a toy soldier, he accepted an honorary membership in the A.F. of L.'s United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, thereupon took six hammer strokes to drive the first nail into a two-by-four. The resulting picture looked for all the world like candidate-with-Indian or candidate-with-dead-fish, only a little better...
...After 1902's famed Danbury Hatters strike, Lawyer Merritt sued the A.F. of L. hatter's union under the antitrust laws, won the company a judgment of more than $200,000 against 191 union members...
...month ago bunchy, belligerent James Caesar Petrillo, president of thg A.F. of L.'s American Federation of Musicians, lolled back in his well-cushioned swivel chair and dictated a letter to the radio networks...
...bravely as a match flickering in the night, the Paris L'Ordre sought cheer for mankind. "Visit the Hostel of Three Mallets in the Latin Quarter," it advised. There, in subterranean chambers, the visitor sees medieval instruments of torture. St. Catherine's Wheel is most gruesome. It rests on a base studded with nails. A victim bound to the wheel was raised or lowered in relation to the base; as the instrument turned, his flesh was torn at the desired speed and depth...
...Once you leave the Hostel," concluded L'Ordre, "the nightmare is ended. Outside, the air is fresh, the sky blue. How sweet is our era of the atomic bomb! If you don't think so, visit the Three Mallets and forget your torments by reliving those of others...