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...well informed men & women of all walks of life, quiet men & women who work hard and spend from one to four hours a day commuting (for which they receive no pay); people with better jobs waiting, ready at any moment to turn over their job to any returned war vet; people who, in order to help in war plants of all kinds, must pay dues and fines for the privilege of helping win the war and thus bring their sons, daughters, husbands and fathers home from the battlefield; people who are good and big enough to deserve constructive rather than...
...famed training ship for officers of the merchant fleet. Aboard, he was confronted by a "ruddy, tanned and dirty old hand" who had reached the awe-inspiring age of 1 6. Squirting tobacco juice through his broken teeth and swell ing out "a chest like a rag-bag," the vet eran questioned the newcomer: "Ah, chum; what's your name?" He was told it was John Masefield. "What's your father?" "I haven't got one." "What's your mother, then?" "I haven't got one." "Oh, you're a orphan, then; the same...
...slobbering, offers to buy you a drink, insists on your listening to his tales of what he did in the last war or what his cousin is doing in this one. He hangs onto you for at least an hour. He is the worst pest of all. . . . [A RETURNED VET] Detroit...
...C.I.O., said the Journal, is a "wizard of public relations." The C.I.O. News's overseas edition, with nearly 100,000 circulation, gets in its aggressive propaganda licks (C.I.O. FIGHTS TO GET VET BACK IN JOB), but sees that the message is "spiced with really clever cartoons, not contentious but just funny." (Apparently, the Journal had half expected the News to class-angle its pinups to the textile shortage.) The Journal's only real criticism was that the C.I.O.'s servicemen's edition seemed to be shy of news about wildcat strikes...
...which he uses with a redolent Paddyism irresistible to the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Knights of Columbus, Westbrook Pegler and most Irishmen, genuine or occasional. His voice is so high that he says of his choirboy period "in the olden days they would surely have brought me to the vet...