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...they have been called dictatorial. Labor, according to Sir Stafford as early as last January, must use any victory which the Party may win in a general election to jam through the House of Commons a sweeping "Emergency Powers Bill." If, as he expects, the House of Lords should balk at this, his Majesty must then be "ad- vised" (i. e. compelled) to create enough new peers to pass the bill and give Labor's premier Rooseveltian powers. Knowing Britain's upper classes for what they are-hard and sturdy nuts to crack-Sir Stafford fears class...
...heaven sent duty to protect and further the avarice of Cambridge's leading profiteers, and it closes its eyes completely to the exorbitant prices which they charge. Consequently, at this time, the garage owners are still battening off the students, and stretching out grasping tentacles to encircle those who balk at such extortionist tactics...
...recommended prosecution of "a New York financier" for income tax evasion. Mr. Cummings had demurred. When the Attorney General had asked the chief of his criminal division to prosecute a Department of Justice employe for a $2,000 defalcation it was Mr. Malloy's turn to balk. His explanation: "The evidence is not strong and I refuse to use the Government to prosecute a little man while they let a big man go free." As his parting shot before leaving office, Pat Malloy declared: "I challenge Cummings to prosecute the big fellow...
...Already under union contract are most of the mines in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Arkansas, Wyoming, Montana, Washington. Alabama and Western Kentucky operators still balk at union-ization...
...analysis of the budget situation, proved that the Chamber can restore stability, but only by wholesale cuts in veterans' pensions and civil servants' salaries, by a drastic drive against chronic French income tax frauds, and by imposing new taxes so crushing that the Chamber seemed likely to balk. Warning that if France wants to avoid inflation, the Frenchman's nightmare, she must make heroic sacrifices, M. Germain-Martin said...