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Ancestors & Integrity. To Charles Francis Adams, banker, yachtsman, ex-Secretary of the Navy and the reigning patriarch of the Adams clan, these reminders of the past were not so much landmarks as part & parcel of daily life. Like J. P. Marquand's George Apley, he was neither insensible to change, nor intolerant of it. But nothing had ever moved him to abandon the manners & morals of his New England ancestors-who include two Presidents (John and John Quincy), a famous ambassador (Charles Francis I), authors (Henry and Brooks), bankers, lawyers and scholars...
Then the mess deepened. Some 2,800 drivers and helpers of the United Parcel Service (department-store deliverers, for the most part) walked out in an unauthorized strike. Their complaint: they had not been paid for the time lost because of the general truck strike. Thousands of New Yorkers worried anew about their jobs-which were so closely geared to the wheels within the wheels of those big, loud, messy trucks...
...Authorized the Post Office Department to establish an air parcel post service...
...Starling (of the Kentucky colonels) might have spent a humdrum life in the South, stalking train robbers, pulling bums out of freight cars and convoying precious cargoes for the railway express company which he served as a detective. But his employers suggested cutting his pay to meet competition from parcel post. So young Starling flitted to the U.S. Secret Service...
Strong Objector. Great Britain, which was neither very worried nor very hopeful about Bretton Woods, was just going to do her damnedest to make Bretton Woods and its related arrangements work well for Britain. Bretton Woods was part & parcel of the larger deal with the U.S. whereby Britain got a loan she badly needed, and in return promised to relax the exchange controls and imperial preferences which had bolstered her trade within the sterling area. British objections were aimed at two features of the Bretton Woods plan...