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...strike-torn '30s, the U.A.W. organized Studebaker without a work stoppage. Vance and Hoffman persuaded the union to retain the piecework pay system that had been a company policy for years. (Studebaker wages now are equal to or better than its rivals'-a potent factor in preserving the company's 101-year record without a strike.) With the track cleared, Vance and Hoffman were ready to step on the gas in search of new markets...
Offstage, Clary is a mild and sensible enough fellow. He was born in Paris in 1926, the son of a piecework tailor. In 1942, when Robert was 16, he and his parents and one of his sisters were deported to Germany as Jews, and sent to Auschwitz. Robert alone survived, and later was transferred to Buchenwald. There, with half a dozen other Frenchmen, he began to give a little show. "I was very young," Robert recalls, "and, really, I did not understand." Nevertheless, he says, "I learned about life in there. I learned that all kinds of people...
...quiet man, he lived out his life resigned to the idea that he was merely a plodding potboiler. He saw his first signed drawing appear in Punch in 1854, and when he died, 37 years and some 3,000 cartoons later, he was still sketching for Punch on a piecework basis. Only a few experts ever saw his originals, and they became a devoted following. Degas knew of Keene and admired him; so did Van Gogh, who conscientiously clipped his drawings as they appeared in Punch. Whistler once said that, with the possible exception of Hogarth, Keene was the greatest...
...been discussing organized graft and crime. Still, the U.S. may not quite understand how organized crime can become. Subjected to the American genius for systematic administration, the casual bribe and the brutal threat are sublimated (and made more dangerous) by standardization of services, fixing of prices, replacement of piecework by a regular wage, centralization of authority and cost accountancy. A case in point is that of James J. Moran...
...souls of men, the more love there is for God in their hearts," said Father Simon. He made friends with the Communist mayor and the Communist schoolteacher. He organized games and singing lessons for the children. He arranged with manufacturers in nearby Besançon for piecework to keep his housewives occupied and increase their income. By 1947, the parish of Saone was much happier...