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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington newshawks, bending over backward to find polite synonyms for "dictator," discovered that: 1) Dictator Batista has a cigaret holder like Franklin Roosevelt's amber one; 2) unlike the President he takes it out of his mouth when he talks; 3) he likes to sleep until 11 a. m., then brunches, sees visitors, plays squash or tennis; 4) he then works until 1 or 2 a. m., after that he sees movies; 5) he likes newsreels of Mussolini, of which he once saw seven in one night; 7) he says that sometimes he likes what Mussolini does, sometimes...
...m not a quotable fellow," he tells interviewers, "just a quiet guy." The quiet guy's big job is to get Fair Standards safely started through the courts by selecting a series of sound, definitive cases for immediate test. His chief source of worry on this score is the possibility of ill-chosen cases filed by employes...
...tell you without concealment and without evasion that it is a question of saving the country," said small, intense, terrier-like M. Reynaud. He explained that even if all Frenchmen now unemployed suddenly went back to work, this would raise industrial production in France only some 7%. According to M. Reynaud, it "must" be shot up 30 to 40% for "adequate" economic and military Rearmament...
This he proposed to get by forcing backward French employers to run their factories longer hours, which means forcing French workmen to work up to 50 hours per week in some cases, and M. Reynaud's decrees provided stern penalties for recalcitrant employers, employes, and for "agitators" fines, jail...
...ground in Europe. Cried Boss Jouhaux: "We must take steps at least as bold as those which have been taken by President Roosevelt. . . . Organized labor in France is not of course willing to pay all the costs and make all the sacrifices." This was not asked of Labor, for M. Reynaud imposed special taxes to milk French employers of greater profits they would make by running longer hours...