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Neatest irony of last week was the appointment of these ancient enemies as negotiators to make peace between A. F. of L. and C. I. O. William Green named Messrs. Woll, Rickert and Bricklayer Harry Bates to the committee which at Franklin Roosevelt's behest will seek "peace with honor" with C. I. 0. (TIME, March 6). John Lewis matched them with a C. I. 0. committee consisting of himself, Sidney Hillman, Philip Murray (steel...
Their train of thought was hardly streamlined. After a preamble, which laid the industry's troubles to Government "favoritism" toward certain competing forms of transport, they listed proposals very similar to those formulated at the President's behest last April by the Splawn Committee of three ICCommissioners (TIME, April...
...Jobs on the State payroll but 60,000 on WPA. Candidate Petersen immediately took Mr. Christgau's part. So did Republican State Chairman W. M. Parker. So did three Democratic candidates for Governor, including U. S. District Attorney Victor Anderson, who had entered the race at the behest of James A. Farley and whose grumbling supporters could only conclude from the Christgau charges that Democrats Farley and Hopkins were working at cross purposes...
Although the 48 State constitutions generally resemble their venerable counterpart, one major difference is that most are considerably shorter-lived. Three-quarters of the State constitutions provide for conventions at the behest of their constituents, making the average age of a State constitution between 20 and 25 years. New Hampshire has had eleven constitutional conventions, Louisiana ten, New York seven. In 1894 New York's Legislature made mandatory a referendum every 20 years after 1916 on whether a convention should be called. In 1916 the voters apathetically said No. In 1936 they apathetically said Yes. So last week...
Emerald findeth no Memling Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting . . . CONTRA NATURAM They have brought whores for Eleusis Corpses are set to banquet at behest of usura...