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...with Radical Socialist fingerprints. It was no secret that Mendès incurred the personal enmity of some of the Radical Socialist old guard when he took the Interior Ministry, which they had long considered their own special bailiwick, away from Radical Socialist Léon Martinaud-Déplat and gave it to young, energetic Francois Mitterrand of the moderate, splinter-sized Democratic and Socialist Resistance Union. The bitterness was quickly evident. Though Martinaud-Déplat had learned of the first leak before Mendès took office, he neglected to tell his successor Mitterrand about it. Bitterness...
...worker cooperation to keep the business going. So Scanlon sat down with the management and worked out the first edition of his productivity plan. Under it, the workers were encouraged to suggest ways of increasing productivity, and were rewarded by bonuses for any such increase. The men in the plat thus became participating members in the enterprise, with a stake in the company's success and responsibility for its success. The plan worked: it pulled the company out of the red and made it into a profit-making business...
...they flashed those bulbs right in his face." George reserved particular scorn for one woman almost with a camera who forced her way up on the plat form before relining to her proper niche...
...Deal really believes that we cannot have good social legislation and also good jobs for all. I believe ... we can have both. . . . We can have both opportunity and security within the framework of a free society." "No Hush-Hush Peace." Dewey en trained for Louisville, making two plat form appearances on the way, at Rich mond and Indianapolis. Neither had been advertised in advance; the crowds that turned out were small. In Louisville, Dewey rode through almost empty streets to the Brown Hotel...
Hastily, WPB Vice Chairman Bill Batt, who is also president of the U.S. subsidiary SKF Industries, Inc., flew to Philadelphia. Flanked by Army and Navy offi cials, he stood on a flag-bedecked plat form to assure his 8,000 workers that SKF Industries is an "American company operated by American people." The Treasury and the Alien Property Custodian, which have been quietly probing SKF Industries, chimed in with praise for its "excellent'' war record. But many a question about SKF was still unanswered...