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...revelations the most interesting part of Tom Girdler's autobiography. The pugnacious author often mistakes shallowness for insight ("With free water and cheap soap who really is obliged to live in filth?"), but in his wrestling with the problem of Labor & Management he tackles squarely one of the thorniest problems in the U.S. The conclusions he has reached are important, not because they are Tom Girdler's, but because they are shared in part by both Big and Little Business, and by many a U.S. citizen who is not in business at all. Says the author...
...thorniest problems of the Prime Ministers of Canada, Australia and South Africa is internal opposition to sending conscripted soldiers beyond national boundaries. Each country has the right to conscript soldiers for home defense, but relies on volunteers for overseas forces. Each Prime Minister is proud of the number who volunteer, but each knows how the restrictions, growing out of nationalism and past quarrels with Britain, handicap the war effort...
Before 1935 one of the thorniest problems facing PBH and the University was what to do with the commuters. Brooks House had taken pity on them and supplied an eating hall and meeting place in the basement, where the draft board now sits. The University was satisfied; the commuters were content with the best they thought they could get; but work around PBH came to a standstill. Commuters were everywhere and the social service work specified by the deed of trust under which the House was given slowed down to low gear and threatened to stop altogether, during the very...
...thorniest problems facing the field is how to keep down the size of sections. Professor Sorokin handles fifty students in his Sociology A section, which has grown too large and unwieldy to function properly as a section. This situation comes as a result of last year's budget cut as well as the field's increased enrollment...
...Committee opposed the Lend-Lease Bill, has opposed the transfer of war supplies to Britain, recently received a pat on the back in a radio broadcast from Berlin. Last week, fast-talking Mr. Christoffel and owlish, wealthy Mr. Babb glared at each other over the thicket of their differences. Thorniest was the issue of the closed shop...