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...main crime, according to Johnson, is "executive myopia ... a disease of those with high rank ... organized razzle-dazzle, the derangement of top management, otherwise known as 'industrial bureaucracy.' " Specifically, business has "plunked for the lowest wages" when it should have become the "champion of the underpaid. ... Is there no one in business who will think of being ahead of the next catastrophe instead of running after the one that has already happened...
Bevin displays little humor and geniality around the office ("Life is Real, Life is Ernest" soon became a common quip). He likes a drink and a chat, but is pathetically awkward at making friends. Nevertheless he won underpaid Foreign Office hearts by going to bat for a general salary raise. When a friend suggested that the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Hugh Daiton, might object, Bargainer Bevin roared: "I'll take the worthy doctor by his pants and swing him around my head till...
Between such spasms they ran the Sells-Floto Circus, beat the rival Scripps-Howard Rocky Mountain News into grogginess, forced Denver merchants to buy Bonfils' coal. They kept a shotgun in their red-carpeted office (which the underpaid staff called the "bucket of blood"), once were both wounded when an irate reader beat them to the draw. Even that affray was grist for their newsmill. Blustered Bonfils: "A dogfight in Champa Street is better than a war abroad." The maxim was drilled into George Creel, Gene Fowler, many another bright pupil in the Post's hell-for-leather...
Said Mrs. Campbell: "We're just going . . . where there are things to buy. We don't want to choose everything from a catalogue." And the Campbell Red Lake Mines Co. had a whopping farewell present for them. Checking over the deal, it found it had inadvertently underpaid George and his partners, last week handed them an additional $40,000 in cash...
Member after member rose in Canada's House of Commons to air a chronic complaint: Parliament is underpaid...