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...Last week, in a letter to the Reporter magazine, Professor Einstein wrote: "If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances...
...Lowry of Republic Steel ("I don't believe I'd know a plumber, electrician or carpenter if I saw one. I haven't hired one for years") sure pats himself on the back and slaps labor. So nobody hires carpenters, plumbers and electricians, and then no one buys Republic Steel. A perfect setup. We all starve...
...album of Communist propaganda, no lie is more overworked than the argument that "aggressive" American policy is dictated by Wall Street millionaires and merchant-of-death munitions makers against the will of the working class. Last week Plumber George Meany, leader of 10 million A.F.L. workingmen, told the annual convention of the New York Federation of Labor that U.S. policy was not aggressive enough...
...concrete drive, screened in the front porch, made a suite of bedroom furniture and slipcovers for chairs, built a snowplow, and rigged a darkroom for his other hobby, photography. Says Lowry, in the independent voice of all his breed: "I don't believe I'd know a plumber, electrician or carpenter if I saw one. I haven't hired one for years...
Continuous Performances. In Detroit, asking police for help, George Van Kula reported that an anonymous prankster had 1) directed to his address two coal trucks, four TV repairmen, two florists, six milkmen, a plumber, a veterinarian, two tow trucks, two exterminators, 2) advertised in the Detroit News that his apartment was for rent, cheap; 3) inserted a want ad stating that Van Kula needed a "dandy man, good wages...