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After the powerful International Typographical Union started publishing its own daily newspapers eight years ago, the union made plain its objective. Said the I.T.U. Executive Council: "[We want to make it tough] for an unreasonable employer by reaching his most sensitive spot -his pocketbook." The I.T.U. carefully picked its own spots, started dailies in twelve towns; in each there was only one newspaper, and its publisher had refused to deal with the union. I.T.U. President Woodruff Randolph not only hoped by competition to force the nonunion papers to recognize I.T.U. but also expected to give jobs to unemployed union members...
...hotel in Monte Carlo and calls for the bridal suite. That night, to the disgust of the other guests, he gets drunk, and the next morning, to their scandal, they discover that he has not only abandoned the poor young thing on her wedding night but has stolen her pocketbook, too. The maiden is not long in distress. The other guests, led by a kindly old dowager (Marie
...demands on American spending. Economizing on defense, foreign aid, and a multitude of inexpensive but important government services is penny pinching of a very dangerous kind. The "burdens of world leadership" are more than mere patriotic oratory; they are real pains that every American must necessarily feel in his pocketbook...
Places to go seem nowadays limited only by the size of your pocketbook and the number of towns listed in the latest Rand McNally Gazetteer. But Bermuda, Nassau, Florida, Washington, New York, and the Vermont ski trails perennially remain the spring vacation favorites...
...Pocketbook Issue. Almost everywhere in the U.S., the pocketbook-the level of income on the farm, the level of employment in the cities-will be a big issue. A Republican seat that will be heated more than-most others by economic factors is that of Michigan's Homer Ferguson. Increasing unemployment in Michigan, particularly in the automobile industry, and C.I.O. President Walter Reuther's cries on the subject are hurting Ferguson. The Democrats have yet to pick their candidate, but the leading prospects are two former U.S. Senators: Blair Moody (1951-53) and Prentiss M. Brown...