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...manpower-mobilization plan was dead, buried in the graveyard file on Mr. Roosevelt's desk. Both Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt and WPB's Sidney Hillman had wanted to be the head man. Logical person to mobilize the country's labor force was the Labor Secretary: Madam Perkins was obviously unsuited. President Roosevelt could have replaced her-but labor leaders, after hours of haggling over who should be her successor, failed to agree; neither A.F. of L. nor C.I.O. chiefs would take a man from the other side. Indications were that no agency would...
...London he has never been such big box office as mellow Fritz Kreisler, brilliant Jascha Heifetz, musicianly Joseph Szigeti. Hubermann is finicky, fussy on the platform. Once he noticed that his audience included a dog, on a woman's lap. He stopped playing, demanded: "Madam, has your little dog paid for his ticket?", waited while woman and dog were hustled...
Mary Ellen Chase is a well-beloved professor of English Literature at Smith College. One night, according to a campus story, when she was traveling in a lower berth, the man in the upper threw down a note reading "MADAM; Shall I come down?" Miss Chase, in describing the adventure, concluded: "Almost more than my terror at this moment was my horror at the monstrous use of the semicolon...
...Paris, empty of purse and broken in health. An old friend got him a job in a school where the food was scanty, his room an unheated garret. No longer free, he could no longer endure solitude. In the end he was horribly captured by a crazy old brothel madam who conceived for him a pure, discarnate love, and he died a clinically brutal death...
...Hamburg, a teacher displayed to his class a pamphlet, The Jews in the U.S.A., with pictures of New York City's Mayor LaGuardia beside a gorilla, "Jewish Judge Marcus Pecora" (presumably meaning New York Justice Ferdinand Pecora-who is a gentile), the "Jewess" Madam Secretary Frances Perkins. At lesson's end, the teacher asked: "And what do you think of a country like that?" The class roared the Nazi Party battle cry: Judah verrecke! ("Death to the Jews...