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From the New Deal, such accusations sounded strange to oilmen's ears. Said one oilman: "The oil industry feels like a small boy spanked by mama for doing something papa told...
...paper his Confédération Générale du Travail (General Labor Confédération) "represents without political leanings all workers aware of the struggle to make final the distinction between the employer and his employes," to quote its grandiose Charter. Strictly speaking, "Papa" Jouhaux had been supposed to represent the great bulk of employes in French large-scale industry. Soon after the new Cabinet took office fortnight ago he met French employers' representatives at a conference presided over by nervous Premier Blum, signed a pact promising to end the nationwide strikes...
...Great Park last week. As a special treat, she was allowed to have breakfast downstairs with her father & mother, the Duke and Duchess of York, and her grandmother, Queen Mary. Birthday presents from family & friends were hidden in closets and behind chairs. A large electric automobile from Mamma and Papa and a bicycle from Grandmamma were hard to conceal, but it took 20 minutes of scrabbling to uncover a gold-headed riding crop from His Majesty, "Uncle David." Later, Princess Elizabeth used the crop to thump the fat sides of her favorite white pony, Peggy. In the afternoon there...
...know that $5,700, to a Princeton Punk, is just Papa's check, with his signature in the lower right hand corner and the $5,700 just above it, but to a mere powder monkey it's a lot to save in two years. If some Punk tries to burn me up with "Hello, Sucker," I'll plum incinerate him with an equally original "Says You." I fail to see where anyone made a sucker...
...weeks' bestseller, but as a work which through sheer merit and a halfway decent publishing job would sooner or later make its way into the black keys-I mean figures. I would appreciate your printing this little manifesto for two reasons: 1) Lest Papa Godowsky (who reads TIME) misinterpret our motive. 2) Lest the thousands of composers among your 600,000 readers deluge Brother Hilb with their manuscripts. Then, if this letter is not already too long, may I make an extremely mild protest at your emphasis upon our "profitable puzzle-&-game volumes." It is true: twelve years...