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...kept on trying. In late April he missed by one vote getting a no-strike bill reported. He supported Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy, but 25 days before Pearl Harbor he "reluctantly reached the parting of the ways" on the Neutrality Act "until the President is moved to assert and protect the right of American citizens to work...
Tires are far & away the biggest bootlegged item. Most local OPA or rationing board officials assert that there is little or no tire bootlegging in their district, harp on the fact that 80% of all new tires on the loose last December now rest in manufacturers' warehouses. But the remaining 20% is enough to support a brisk bootleg trade. Thus, of 3,500 tire dealers checked in the New York-New Jersey area, OPA itself found that at least 1% were actual violators. Of 1,575 dealers in five Western States, at least 60 were exposed as law breakers...
...their packs when he banned Father Coughlin's up-to-the-minute Fascist newsmagazine on the grounds of sedition under the espionage act. At 11:30 Sunday morning Social Justice distributors in Boston decided not only that they would ignore this crimp in their staff, but they would also assert their displeasure in no uncertain terms. The driver of a Social Justice truck, Joseph McDonald, kicked to pieces Traveler photographer Hansen's camera when he tried to take a picture of a newsboy handing out the magazine. Hansen asserts that a Boston policeman held him while McDonald kicked...
...viewpoint, it is directly detrimental to the war effort. The training of skilled laborers in NYA schools is undoubtedly a war activity, for without those skills the basic defense industries would be forced to close down. CCC boys are admittedly of military age, but few Congressmen have dared to assert that soil erosion and wastage of natural resources are of no bearing on wartime supply problems. Considered in its longterm affects, the bill is even more foolish. Several tens of thousands of college students are directly dependent on NYA funds for their educations. If the money...
...distorted one of Nazi philosophy--can be said only of people who are free, who in the fullest possession of the dignity of true freedom choose to give support to their country. The Germans have never been a free people, they have never been able to assert their rights, they have always been ruled, and, therefore, remained politically immature. If the generation of the last war veterans--due to lack of proper training for self-government--could not make a success of their new Republic, how much less can the present Nazi-trained Germans find their places in a peaceful...