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...laws obliging all Frenchmen between 18 and 50 and all unmarried Frenchwomen between 20 and 35 to work at any job the Government might name. This wording fooled nobody. Germany desperately needs workers. Last June Hitler had offered the release of 1,500,000 French war prisoners as bait to French labor. But only a few thousand workers had been willing to cross into Germany. Now Hitler had forced Vichy to force Frenchmen to cross...
...unusual eating habits also keep the termite safe from poisoned bait (used against ants, grasshoppers, etc.), contact poisons (used against orchard pests, etc.), poisoning of breeding grounds (used against mosquitoes), dusting (used against the boll weevil), introduction of natural enemies (used against the Japanese beetle and boll weevil) and other routine methods of fighting insects...
...Mohandas Gandhi's faith in the non-violent noncooperation which he urges for India's defense reached such furnace temperature that he wrote in the journal Harijan: "The presence of the British in India is an invitation to Japan to invade India. Their withdrawal would remove the bait. . . . Free India would be better able to cope with the invasion. Unadulterated noncooperation would then have full sway...
Lost in the dust of this hurrying traffic are Juke Girl Ann Sheridan and her profession. Instead of working at it, she has to spend most of her time avoiding Richard Whorf, who runs with the labor-bait-ing packinghouse gang, and patching up Ronald Reagan, who likes the pickers. In a rather dull game of social significance and truck theft, the pickers beat the packers...
Thurman Arnold, famed capital-baiter and labor-baiter, was scheduled to bait labor again before a House Judiciary subcommittee last week. Instead the committee received a little note from Mr. Arnold's boss, Attorney General Francis Biddie, politely informing them he preferred not to have Mr. Arnold appear. His reasons: 1) the bills in question (to curb labor racketeers) were not concerned with the Justice Department; 2) Mr. Arnold had "heretofore expressed himself" on the matter of labor racketeering and his views were well known. In brief, Mr. Biddle hauled Mr. Arnold off labor's neck...