We hear the term independent contractors in Iraq. Independent contractors? Mercenaries!
Studs TerkelI presumably lost $150,000 in the depression of 1937โon my one stock investmentโbecause I did everything Lehman Brothers told me. I said, well, this is a foolโs procedure . . . buying stock in other peopleโs businesses.
Studs TerkelHaving been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.
Studs Terkel