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...Communism has developed a new weapon to rout out it's bourgeois enemies, a weapon unthought of by less imaginative dictatorships: trial by sound-truck. Like baying hounds at the foot of a tree, Communism's sound-trucks last week planted themselves in the streets outside of tradesmen's shops and called their "crimes" to public attention in ear-splitting indictment. Panicked merchants, businessmen and petty public servants raced from their hiding places by the thousand to seek doubtful sanctuary in public confession or to join the hue and cry, and hunt with the hunters...
Ever since the days of Queen Victoria, British monarchs have granted Warrants to tradesmen who supply the royal household with everything from the Scotch in the royal highball to the topper on the royal head. To Britons the list is considered a Who's Who in International Trade, the ultimate stamp of approval...
...King's tradesmen are represented by the Royal Warrant Holders' Association, which has offices in the shadow of Buckingham Palace, is headed by Sir Frederick Wells, purveyor of disinfectant to the Master of the Household. The association keeps close tabs on all Warrants, takes action against any firm that displays the royal seal without authority. The only U.S. firm with a Royal Warrant is Manhattan Fine Art Dealer Frank Partridge. (Other U.S. names on the Warrant list are British subsidiaries of U.S. companies...
...cannot but smile as she recalls some of the differences that stood between her and her husband in those youthful days, e.g., his conviction (the result of his gentle upbringing) that one should always pay one's bills. "I was truly shocked when Mike informed me . . . that cheating tradesmen was dishonest"; and she barked at him reproachfully: "You're a fine editor of the New Masses...
Unfortunately, the war and its aftermath have not brought in their wake any sudden upturn in business ethics. And while most local tradesmen treat students fairly, there are always a few on the periphery of the Square business world who are governed by the famous motto of P. T. Barnum. The recent rash of threatened suits against a local furniture dealer is evidence of this condition...