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...Russian commanders in Botosani and Dorohoi knew little and cared less about civilian administration. Their job: to safeguard their Army, provide supplies and billets. Their chief desire: to get back to the front with their units. Their reaction: Communist contempt for "capitalist inefficiency and selfishness...
...union's boss, Phil Murray, appeared before Senator James Murray's War Contracts subcommittee. He wanted Congressional blessing for the annual wage; not compulsory legislation, but approval of the principle. He felt that this would help unions get annual-wage provisions written into contracts, thus provide a safeguard against postwar layoffs. His argument: industry has been guaranteed postwar profits for two years through "carry-back and carry-forward" tax provisions. Farmers have been guaranteed 90% of parity prices on crops. Why should not workers be guaranteed a full year's pay for a full year...
Deft Direction. Mrs. Dilling was defended by her ex-husband. Those without funds were represented by court-appointed lawyers. On behalf of their clients, who have shown little enthusiasm for democratic ways, the 22 lawyers energetically demanded every final democratic safeguard. All week long the legalists bobbed up & down, objecting, concurring, complaining. They protested because the court reporter worked for a firm with an allegedly Jewish executive. They applied for a writ of mandamus to have the whole thing dropped. They said there were too many policemen in court for a "relaxed" atmosphere-and FBI agents had been "persecuting...
...profits. Patriotism aside, they have grown politically sensitive in the past decade and have no wish to be accused of profiteering. Last week in St. Louis' Coronado Hotel, the world's No. 1 producer of bomber turrets publicly embraced the theory that the best wartime safeguard of free enterprise is low profits. Said Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.'s President and Board Chairman William Stuart Symington Ill, at a labor-management banquet...
...generation has been taught not to fight. From earliest childhood a boy is trained not to run risks so as not to break his mother's heart. . . . The result is that in the Army there is an emotional attitude toward getting hurt." Brigadier Chisholm recommends drill as one safeguard against nervous breakdown because 1) it gives a man a feeling that he is part of a group, 2) it reduces him temporarily to the condition of a child for whom all decisions are made. After a good dose of drill, a man can be rebuilt to use the special...