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...savings are net to the U.S. taxpayer. A riffed employee who is a permanent civil servant usually gets slotted (reabsorbed) in Washington. Another can sometimes bump (push out) the man below him, and move down into his job. The bumping process can presumably continue until only the office junior is riffed...
...Hunter uncoils in a simple setting of domestic infelicity. Charles and Edna are a middle-aged London couple who have been putting a good face on their bad marriage for so long that they have almost forgotten what it really looks like. Charles is a well-placed civil servant with the aplomb of a head waiter and the moral fiber of an eel. Edna retreats into a cocoon of modern books, music and art. Into this cozy purgatory of ask-me-no-questions, Author Green drops a woman, not just any woman, but an overnight celebrity named Eva Droumek...
...indeed, a reconstructed and truly American idealism to which the nation could rally. This hope began to turn Taft into a popular figure. Whatever suffering they brought to him as a man, Taft's last six months brought him at last recognition of his stature as a public servant, or, as he would have said, as a politician...
...From that point on, Mr. Matthews has been one of the most conspicuous Red-hunters in the field . . . The irony of Mr. Matthews' career is underscored by the fact that, in his days of 'united front' leadership, he excoriated Protestantism as the dupe and servant of capitalism; today as the dupe and servant of Communism." Hutchinson sees the Matthews story as a tragedy for which the church must accept some responsibility. "I know there must be deep flaws somewhere in the man . . ." he admits. "Yet I cannot help believing that if the church had only been...
MacArthur then explained that the company's bylaws do not require its officers to own stock. "I wish to state," he added, "that I am an employee of the company and its servant, not one of its owners. I am not as fortunate as you, Mr. Gilbert. Such money as I am able to invest I have placed in defense bonds to help protect our beloved country. What I do with future funds is neither your business nor that of anyone else." The 70 stockholders in attendance applauded...