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Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg was for 22 years editor of the Grand Rapids Herald before the people of Michigan elected him to the U. S. Senate. In politics his nose for news still serves him well. Fore. seeing an inevitable effort to amend...
...resolution of the New Yorkers and most significant of the whole convention was the one to amend the Guild constitution so as to throw the organization open to workers in advertising, circulation, business and other unorganized departments, and to apply for affiliation in the C. I. O. Rolypoly Reporter Robert Buck of the Washington News has constituted himself the leader of the Guild's loyal opposition ever since the union was founded. His faction, conservative and contrary individuals from the Southwest and Midwest who resent the "New York domination," approved joining C. I. O. but opposed broadening the union...
When, after five hours, the Senate recessed for an unhappy weekend, an amazing total of 54 Senators had taken part in the afternoon's debate. Still adamant was Senator Byrnes, having refused to withdraw his amendment in favor of a separate resolution when he heard that Senators Guffey and Neely were planning to amend such a resolution with condemnation of another species of mass lawbreaking: lynching. And of all those who had raised their voices in defense of sit-downers, not one had championed the Sit-Down as admirable or lawful...
...General's advice. Come to flay his old chief's plan, onetime No. 1 Brain Truster Raymond Moley next day cried, "The institutions of democracy grow and strengthen only through their use. Let us make democracy work by working through the instruments of democracy. ... I would rather amend and amend and amend than pack and pack and pack." There were already plenty of people who would rather amend the Constitution than accept the President's Plan-if they could only agree on an amendment, and Pundit Moley offered no solution of their problem. Neither did Princeton...
...Monroe County Penitentiary. Legality of Judge Gitelman's experiment was questioned, however, because Section 2188 of New York Law says "once a sentence starts it must not be interrupted." To remove this obstacle to interrupted jail terms, last year bills were introduced in the Legislature to amend the law, but Governor Herbert Lehman vetoed them on the ground that the weekend sentence idea had not been tried out enough for State-wide adoption. He suggested legislation be passed applicable only to Rochester...