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LETTERS FROM LEE'S ARMY (312 pp.)-Abridged by Charles Minor Blackford III-Sender...
Chief consolations: Lee Tover's crisp camera work; Wallace Ford as a retired safe-buster; and the enormously proficient Mr. Bogart, who can just sit in a phone booth and make a long-distance call to St. Louis crackle with life and interest...
...Robert E. Lee, the "most magnificent man I ever saw," stands on the steps of a house, faultlessly uniformed in grey, with sword, sash, boots and "beautiful" spurs...
...suits for back pay rose to billions, the C.I.O.'s legal counsel, Lee Pressman, admitted that the whole business had got out of hand.* Cried he: "They are fantastic. Local lawyers have gone hog-wild. Suits for those incredible sums have fanned the flames of anti-unionism...
What worried Lee Pressman and other union leaders were the effects of the suits on the whole body of the Wages & Hours Act. Last week, the Senate started hearings on bills to slam the door against portal pay suits. The one which really raised the hair of unionists was the bill of Indiana's Republican Senator Homer Capehart. It sounded reasonable. The bill would prohibit suits against any employer who had "acted in good faith" to obey the Wages & Hours Act. But under this bill, which many Congressmen favored, unionists knew that it would be almost impossible...