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...likes to pinch women's gloves from dime-store counters and file them away in his great big desk. It is a pretty harmless foible, but if this were known, what would it do to the "Company Image"? Two extraverted corporate types are rivals for his ballpoint-pen scepter, but although the telephone company can command more men than Henry V could put in the field at Harfleur, this is a conflict of clowns rather than kings. As in Shakespeare's day, the faithful friend-Mercutio, Horatio or Mark Antony-is in short supply, but Polonius, prototype...
...workers in the factory, or when labor organizers were methodically kneed, blackjacked and even shot by Bennett-paid Detroit gangsters. Old Henry stood above and away from it all, refusing to believe that such abuses existed. In this vacuum of leadership, corporate cliques vied for Ford's erratic scepter. "The sinister Bennett" was pitted against the "dynamically ruthless" production chief Charles Sorensen; the "public-spirited...
Earlier in the day Tomlimson presented a "banner of confidence" to representative of Gov. Endicott Peabody '42 and Boston Mayor John F. Collins. The banner is of silk, 15 inches square, with designs of the "scepter of righteousness," the "star of hope," and the "crown of victory" in purple on a field of broad bands of red, white, and blue...
...their weight behind an eccentric Baluba chief named Albert Kalonji, and went right on mining diamonds while the Congolese central government floundered helplessly in Leopoldville. Wallowing in Forminiere's lavish tax and dividend payments, the bearded Kalonji donned a diamond-studded crown and leopard apron, found himself a scepter, and dubbed himself Kasai's King Albert...
...balance." The world is riddled with "mysteries of injustice, disasters in excess of guilt." After his agonizing ordeal, Job "gets back double the number of she-asses; so he should, for God has enacted upon him a parable of justice. Oedipus does not get back his eyes or his scepter over Thebes...