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...evidence for his case is far from conclusive. Readers will be grateful to Author Brooks for his delving into the vast mass of Elizabethan research, but they will not agree that his muckraking has uncovered a skeleton, will find still circumstantial and uncontroverted the evidence of The Bard's friend Ben Jonson: "I loved the man, & do honour his memory-on this side idolatry-as much...
...Perhaps the question of India can be best understood if we refer it to Mencken's law. The Bard of Baltimore annunciated this gem some time...
...Behind a lot of senseless clamor, the critics of labor had one essential point: labor is getting time-and-a-half for hours worked over 40 hours a week and often double time on Sundays and holidays even within the 40 hours. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ralph A. Bard admitted that overtime payments on $56,000,000,000 worth of war contracts might amount to $4,000,000,000. In short, labor has a good thing in the war, a better thing than any other large group except possibly the farmers, a good thing that looks bad compared...
...Administration sent Mr. Nelson, Mr. Bard, Lieut. General William Knudsen, War Department's Robert Patterson, the Maritime Commission's leathery Admiral Land into the breach. To a man they deplored stoppages, no matter how small. But their main point: the Smith Bill would cause an uprising in labor, provoke disunity, wreck the war effort...
...Howard Smith, Carl Vinson, Thurman Arnold, and Ralph Bard, the anti-labor stampede would seem to revolve around the issue against the 40-hour week and the closed shop. Actually, it is much more than that. It is an extremely clever and back-handed attempt to kill Philip Murray's labor-management plan. These men who have been waging an "undeclared war" against labor on the floor of Congress and in the pages of the daily press are like scheming murderers who start a row in one part of town to cover up their real crime in another part...