Word: unfitness
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...Chicago last week. Titled 0 Say Can You Sing?, FTP's "musical comedy revue" had been more than four months in the making. To stage, costume, write, score, act and direct it, the Government had hired at $23.50 per person per week some 250 untried, unemployed or unfit stage folk from the Chicago area. Result was a three-hour performance which did not differ in quality from most previous amateur or Federal drama. When it was good it was very good, when it was bad it was awful...
...simpler than the smoke screen of mutual hate and intolerance implies. The companies should allow the unions the control they want in the hiring halls, agreeing to employ union labor without threat of "scabs" and strike breakers. Labor in turn should permit the companies to reject men they consider unfit, maintain the traditional right of the marine owner to employ whomever he chooses. Thus employers could not lock out workers for reasons of prejudice or party, but would still control the calibre of the crews, on which safe conduct at sea so much depends. Agreements based on these points could...
...promising machine lacks the right cogs in that many of the advisors are unfit for the job, and poor organization serves as a defective driving wheel. Freshmen themselves are partly blameable for the first fault, incompetent men. They demand from their advisors the voluminous ever-changing rules governing courses, and are bitter if the instructor makes the smallest mistake in the facts. Dean Leighton has found that the older professors--the best advisors who take the most effective interest in the students--will resign if held accountable for laws better picked up at University C. If Freshmen were less insistent...
...When Harry H. Ball, WPA director in Delaware County, complained that a road foreman was unfit for his job, Democratic County Chairman Anthony P. Barrett wrote to him explaining the rule by which he picked all WPA foremen. The rule: "A good Party worker makes an excellent public servant." "It is amazing to me," roared Harry Hopkins, denying the charges in full, "that the Republican National Committee will permit Joe Grundy's henchmen in Pennsylvania to peddle their phoney affidavits and second-hand gossip. . . ." Sample Hopkins' refutation: In Delaware County, where Harry H. Ball implied that only Democrats...
...What reason have. I to think another similar experience is not just ahead of me, and the Grim Reaper at this moment standing ready to strike? Such uncertainty is maddening, and has rendered me unfit to do any work for which I was trained...