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...workers' streets and docksides and pitheads, there was no man who could stir the wind and grip the emotion like Welshman Bevan...
Immediately on his election, Barr went quickly to work. He planned to give raises in specific places and departments where they were long overdue, hoped to stir up employee initiative by loosening the tight controls imposed by Avery, e.g., allow buyers to buy-virtually impossible under Avery. He hoped to open up a new store or two, lay plans for an employee pension plan, put an end to the traditional Avery policy of secrecy with the press. To replenish Ward's ravaged top executive echelon, down to one vice president, he began setting up a new management team...
...dropped. "The sequence of [the French] reasoning seems to be thus," one Vietnamese official wrote to the New York Times. "To get rid of Premier Diem, one must sell the idea to the U.S. first . . . One must prove that Mr. Diem is inefficient. To prove that . . . one must stir up troubles...
...takes a legislative act to tow those cars away, I'll get them towed away," a dapper-looking man shouted from the speaker's table to the cheering crowd of 150 citizens. The promise caused considerable stir and it was minutes later before the meeting could be brought to order again...
...first there were reactions against the new liberalism, such as it was. At Harvard the most notable revolt occurred in 1920. A European liberal was causing a stir in Cambridge. Harold J. Laski, later famed as an economist at London University's School of Economics, and then a tutor in the division of History, Government, and Economics here, caused the Lampoon to depart from its humorous ways. In its own words, the Lampoon "dipped its pen in vitriol," and castigated Mr. Laski, dedicating a whole issue to the radical who had advocated anarchy in a Boston Milk Strike. From cover...