The State Department is incensed, and if this conference fails it will be the woodshed for three Central American presidents.
His latest novel sheds light on an émigré writer’s woodshedding period.
More than a few of the 3,000 members of the National Association of Manufacturers, gathered for their annual convention in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last week, felt like small boys worrying about a trip to the woodshed. None knew how vindictive or friendly toward business the Truman Administration would be.