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...call attention to a significant omission from Mr. Murray's letter. He does not defend the practices which this bill would prohibit. He does not assert that it is right that unions should practice robbery or extortion by violence in commerce. He does not argue that it is right for unions to paralyze the nation or a community by pulling the switches and closing down essential utilities without notice...
...Said Ben Franklin: "It is unreasonable what some assert, 'that printers ought not to print anything but what they approve'; since if all of that business should make such a resolution, and abide by it, an end would thereby be put to free writing, and the world would afterwards have nothing to read but what happened to be the opinions of printers...
...assert [TIME, Jan. 28]: "Boiling at the idea of giving a Negro a white man's wage, Southern Senators planned a filibuster. . . ." I respectfully point out that what you state as a fact is obviously a mere assumption on your part, since you have no evidence of the fact. You can find nothing in S. 101 that says anything about wages...
...spirit that moved Eire to declare her independence moved two of her western isles to assert their own independence of Eire. For 40 years the 200 fisherfolk of Turn and Turbot have maintained an "untaxable republic," refusing to pay taxes to County Galway on the mainland...
...Executive [Committee] which has the right to describe their own party as they wish to do. But this is a very important body. I have been told that it has the power to summon Ministers before it. Evidently Mr. Laski has great power and evidently he is keen to assert it. ... Broadly speaking, it is better that declarations about foreign policy should be made by Ministers of the Crown responsible to the House of Commons...