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...interest in a tottering California aircraft plant and went to work as a drop-hammer operator. "But after one day, I didn't like the way the place was being run," says Price, "and I asked the board to let me take over as manager. To my utter amazement, they accepted my proposal...
...pledged," met the order with characteristic language: "His [Monaghan's] 'I-am-the-law' order is intended to chain New York's 'finest' to their intolerable working conditions, low wages and long hours, through Iron Curtain tactics. It betrays an utter lack of confidence in the integrity of New York's policemen, who deeply and bitterly resent the coercive threats of this stumbling, petty dictator." Then he rushed the roster of his union out of the state so that it could not be seized, announced he would organize secretly, and filed suit...
That night in the gold-domed Statehouse, before Massachusetts' legislators, General MacArthur made a speech which, despite all his familiar oratorical skill, disconcerted many of his admirers. His most surprising assertion: that "the outstanding impression which emerges [from the Korean war] is the utter uselessness of the enormous sacrifice." The original "high moral purpose," he said, had "yielded to the timidity and fear of our leaders" because they had hesitated to answer the attack of the Chinese Communists effectively. "Appeasement thereafter became the policy of war on the battlefield...
...Singapore, on his tour of Asia, Governor Thomas E. Dewey expressed a view of the Korean war that was diametrically opposed to the MacArthur thesis of "utter uselessness." Said Dewey: "the vast armies of Red China have taken a terrific beating," and Communism has suffered its worst setback since...
Nobody was more surprised than Walcott himself. Back in his corner, Jersey Joe was so choked with emotion that at first he could hardly utter a word. He slid to his knees, and only his bustling, happy handlers kept him from collapsing to the canvas. But at the TV mike he recovered and delivered a muscularly religious sermon. As he later told reporters: "I've worked for 21 years for this night. I read my Bible before the fight I prayed between every round. I asked God to help...