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Your story in TIME, Jan. 27, about Professor Lloyd James's loss of reason and its horrid result [wife-murder] recalled the several kindly letters which I have received from this tsar of English speech...
...York City voter, Jimmy half-heartedly practiced law while his wife ran a flower shop. He conducted a short-lived radio program, looked around for a steady job. And a job to Jimmy meant a political job. Last fall Mayor LaGuardia gave, him one: as $20,000-a-year tsar of industrial and labor relations for Manhattan's giant cloak-&-suit industry...
...time the Army started shopping for more trucks, Sidney Hillman's voice had more carrying power, for he had be come the left side of Franklin Roosevelt's two-headed defense tsar, Knudsenhillman, head of the powerful Office of Production Management. One of the first things Sidney Hillman said in his new, strong voice was that Army orders should go only to manufacturers who respect the Wagner Act and other New Deal labor legislation...
...decide without running to the President for his ruling. What would he do with labor? Could he find a single man who would have the confidence both of Henry Ford and Roland Jay Thomas of the United Auto Workers? Would a labor man or a management man be tsar of defense? Only a couple of days before, Britain's Minister of Labor and National Service, Ernest Bevin, had been put in charge of all war production. It might happen here...
Behind him was 36 years' experience for just such a job. When, peasant-born, sketchily schooled, he won his first Diet seat in 1904, Finland was still a grand duchy under the Tsar of Russia. As Finland won its independence, began to prosper, so did Kallio, becoming fifteen-time Speaker of the Diet, four-time Premier, and, finally, President...