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Peace Comes Home to Roost...
Alabama's Senator Lister Hill came out of his chair like a rooster flapping for the high roost, began squawking in protest. But Chavez had successfully brought off a slick parliamentary maneuver.* A vote was taken. The motion passed, 49 to 17. The FEPC fight was out in the open...
...substance, the Army's shortsighted orientation program has come home to roost. Five years of inviolate, incompetent officer rule spreading its vile propaganda of chauvinism and prejudice; five years of "controlled" forums and news services where all political topics were taboo . . . five years of pompously proclaiming to the world that our Armies were fighting for Four Freedoms, or Democracy, or Liberty, while the truth of the matter was that our men, given no better incentive, went into battle with only one thought in their minds: self-preservation and living long enough to get home again...
...longtime managing editor of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and power behind his paper's famed crusades against political and industrial corruption (Teapot Dome, Tom Pendergast, Union Electric) ; of bronchial pneumonia; in St. Louis. He paid his men well, fired them only for indifference or disloyalty, ruled his roost with icy justice. One of Bovard s ex-copyreaders, fired for sneaking P-D copy to a public utility before publication, once asked for his job back, pleading that he "had to live." Asked Bovard...
...would not be settled in Detroit. It would be settled high up on the 24th floor of G.M.'s building near Manhattan's Columbus Circle. There, in the paneled office of G.M.'s board chairman, Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr., all G.M. problems eventually come home to roost...