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...Schulberg: "The cocktail party is America's favorite form of seduction.... The plot is always the same. Come up to my room and have a drink. And whether the object is physical passion or getting your client's name into the headlines, the method is standard: to weaken their resistance with let-me-pour-you-another-one, until they open their arms or their columns to you in an alcoholic daze. Of course there will always be some ladies, and members of the working press, who bounce back regularly after each seduction, holding out their empty glasses, eager...
...they weaken," he declared, "we shall need to make many basic readjustments"--wage and salary increases "in some cases," lower prices "in the numerous instances where profit margins permit or where future profits would be better protected, by assuring larger volume through lower prices," now social legislation, and restoration of some wartime government controls...
When the head of a great country thinks that world peace is threatened by the very existence of another social system, he ought to try to do something about it. Stalin tries. He inspires and directs Communist parties in all non-Communist countries to weaken their social systems and, if possible, to destroy them. In a nutshell, the evidence that the Communists intend to dominate the world boils down to this: 1) the Communists say they do; and 2) they act as if they mean...
...arriving in Atlanta as a paying passenger on a train, announced that hoboes had stopped riding the rods. He explained: "There are plenty of jobs now, and all of us are needed. If kids see us riding the freights, they might try to imitate us and this would further weaken the nation's manpower...
Professor Cox, who dealt sharply with the legal aspects of the proposed bills, declared by the both the labor act recently passed by the House of Representatives and the one currently before the Senate would weaken unions and thus hamper collective bargaining, "on which the major load of industrial peace must rest...