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...with his onetime friend Jack Frye. Present at some meetings of the three-day peace conference was CABoss James M. Landis. He pointedly reminded Hughes and Frye that a major airline was something of a public utility which private individuals could not kick around with impunity. After a final six-hour session, Hughes agreed to lend T.W.A. $10,000,000 (through his Hughes Tool Co.) and back Frye's plan to authorize a new issue of 2,000,000 shares of T.W.A. common stock...
...first meeting with the committee sure that he was being put on the spot. But when he found that the committee's purpose was to help with his problems rather than to seek his scalp, he cooperated enthusiastically. One weekend the committee kept a 30-hour vigil (six-hour shifts of two men each) to observe the jail's routine. Result: 1) a program of wise reforms carried out with the help of individual committee members; 2) public credit to the jailer...
...they also found they were not quite in that land nor of it. (Their new home was declared an "Emergency Refugee Shelter" so its guests would not be subject to immigration laws.) Quartered in old Fort Ontario behind a fence of restrictions, they could get only six-hour passes. They could not travel farther than 20 miles. They had to be in at night. Their barracks apartments, partitioned with wallboard, were better than a concentration camp, but had little privacy. They shared bathrooms and the mess hall...
They had placarded the ruins with huge portraits of Stalin and with posters that proclaimed: "The destruction of the German nation is not among the aims of the United Nations." They had conscripted German women for work gangs. An ordinary Hausfrau had to put in one six-hour day each fortnight clearing rubble (see cut). Wives of Nazi Party members labored six days a week at 72 pfennigs (approximately 7½?) an hour...
Although he was the first to bring a play by John Dos Passos '16 to German audiences, Jessner's career has been associated chiefly with the classics. He directed several of Shakespeare's plays while on the continent, though never "Much Ado About Nothing," and once supervised a six-hour production of Goethe's "Faust...