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Most spectacular case before the overworked National Labor Relations Board at the moment is Ford Motor Co., charged with violating Labor's Magna Carta, the Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel...
...service men had ripped notebooks from reporters' hands, confiscated films, chased one photographer for five miles until he took refuge in a police station. No less than ten of the 30 guests at Mr. Bennett's breakfast had subpoenas to testify against Ford at the Labor Board hearings...
Unsoftened by Mr. Bennett's hospitality the reporters and cameramen proved the Labor Board's best witnesses. Opening his hearings in Detroit three weeks ago, the Labor Board trial examiner, John T. Lindsay, confined the early sessions to the Battle of the Overpass, though Louis J. Colombo, the Ford lawyer, protested that that was a matter for local officials, not the Labor Board. Mr. Colombo, senior partner of Detroit's Colombo, Colombo & Colombo, is often compared in voice, ability and courtroom manner to another famed lawyer of Italian extraction, Manhattan's Ferdinand Pecora. During the hearings...
Wrote St. John's new Board Member Hutchins to Board Chairman Amos F. Hutchins (no kin): "I am convinced that the plans they have in mind will make St. John's an important centre of liberal education in the U. S." No such centre today, St. John's is a small (enrollment: 250), State-subsidized school struggling unimpressively in the shadow of the Naval Academy. Its long educational decline was climaxed under the presidency of one-time (1930-33) U. S. Prohibition Administrator Amos Walter Wright Woodcock, who resigned two months ago after a squabble with...
...dell. From the dell, the two set out for the border in a trainload of refugees. They are arrested again, handed over to an impressionable young Commissar for safekeeping. The young Commissar falls in love with the Countess, kills himself so she can escape. The Countess and A. J. board a river boat for the border and it looks as though their troubles are ove r until the Countess falls ill. At the border, the American Red Cross enters the proceedings as deus ex machina. Marlene is popped into a sickbed. A. J. dodges one more firing squad, boards...