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...reward was the top job in the Internal Revenue Bureau. There he made more reforms. A significant change: the Bureau's form letters are no longer addressed to "Dear Sir" or "Dear Madam"; they now use taxpayers' full names. Weekends Hannegan has spent traveling to his bureaus, preaching efficiency and courtesy, pepping up employes' morale. "I'm an old team man," he said...
...already sold out last week. The work includes no supernaturally levitated figures, but in one drawing an echelon of six flying fish completes a bank-turn above their tank in a pet store. The proprietor explains to a customer: "We don't sell them singly, Madam. It breaks up the formation...
...organized labor's threats to purge them, come election time, the House passed (231-10-141) the Smith-Connally strike-and-labor-control bill. Aimed squarely at John Lewis, the bill bristles with restrictions on labor. Mildest Administration slur at the measure, during hearings, came from Labor Secretary Madam Frances Perkins (who had presented her usual package of charts and statistics to show that there are fewer than a microscopic number of strikes): "The bill is most unwise." The bill went on to the Senate-House conference committee...
When Secretary of Labor Perkins was approached by the mine operators after the initial negotiations and then John R. Steelman's conciliation had failed, the good madam, following the regular procedure for settling disputes in war industries established under Executive Order 9017 of January 1942, certified the dispute to the War Labor Board. The operators, because they knew the board's desire to "hold the line" (as requested by the President) on wages and prices would result in a decision in their favor, were delighted to accept the order. The U.M.W., with a real grievance lying back of their demand...
...Manhattan's lower East Side, schoolteachers noticed that girl pupils, all twelve to 14, were flashing $5 and $10 bills. Police investigation uncovered a vice ring that supplied teen-age prostitutes for middle-aged men. The madam who directed operations was 17 years...