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...President was not yet ready to make this final wrench in American life. He talked now of "voluntary" methods, with only the warning: "It may be that all of our volunteer effort-however well intentioned and well-administered-will not suffice to solve the problem. In that case we shall have to adopt new legislation...
...degree they had been met. He said he believed that Brigadier General Philip R. Faymonville, head of the U.S. Supply Mission in Moscow, had such information. The Admiral added: "There seem to be obstacles to the flow of American munitions to this country. Someone may have dropped a monkey wrench into the machinery. I tell you frankly I do not know just what the picture is." In other words, the U.S. Government had not given its Ambassador to Russia the facts about aid-to-Russia...
This move is more insidious than Mr. Lewis' pre-Pearl Harbor decision to become an anti-New Deal isolationist. It is more harmful than his too-recent attempt to throw a strike wrench into WLB's Little Steel decision. This is the last desperate attempt of an embittered man to regain his former power, even at the cost of shattering Labor's delicately constructed moves toward cooperation, inside and outside of the ranks...
...friendly welder's advice to Magnuson: "Just keep a wrench or something in your hand. Then you'll be okay...
...half that art is teamwork. Says he: "There isn't a tank man alive who could operate a tank by himself, and there isn't a tank crew that could keep a tank operating without the help of the last little man with the last little monkey wrench. They all know that...