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...United States Government is offering us a gift of 280 million dollars. Beware of this gift . . . 280 million dollars worth of merchandise will be dumped on France. Certain branches of our industry will have to die . . . America will start meddling in our business. . . . Hundreds of thousands of tradesmen and shopkeepers will end miserably in bankruptcy. . . . It is not the Communist Party that wants to expropriate you-it is the Rothschilds, the Morgans, the Du Fonts. We, the Communists, have always respected private property and savings. . . . The Communist Party stands by the people of France in their fight against the American...
...Bulb-eyed, walrus-mustached Parisian Léon Bloy published eight volumes of his journal, two autobiographical novels and many other works* during his 71-year lifetime that ended in 1917. But none sold enough copies to relieve him of the necessity of begging from his friends, from tradesmen, from strangers, to keep his wife and two daughters alive. Yet Beggar Bloy said no polite thank-yous to society. His writings alternated perfervid religious devotion with savage, four-letter-word vituperation against solid bourgeois values...
...goggling egos in It May Never Happen are mostly those of ordinary Britons: clerks, housewives, tradesmen, or casuals who drift around the periphery of fixed society. Pritchett furnishes the wastelands of their minds with the unspoken impulses, the suppressed, half-formed resentments, suspicions and despairs that shape their personalities and behavior. Outwardly nothing much happens to these people. The reader who wants his excitement laid on with a trowel, characters forced toward some unexpected twist-ending by an inventive author, will find them unrewarding. As in the stories of Virginia Woolf and Elizabeth Bowen, the excitement in these stories grows...
This time a Government fact-finding board, prodded by a strike, recommended it as a wage increase to 31,370 C.I.O. Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers and a ladleful of A.F. of L. Metal Tradesmen...
...Your field of non-customer prospects is broad and rich. It includes both tradesmen and professional people, your landlord, your insurance agents, your bridge group, your golf foursome, members of your church, lodge, alumni club...