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Chang, formerly a visiting professor at American and British universities and one-time Chinese minister to Turkey and Chile, will base his speech upon the wide knowledge of the problems of minorities which won him the vice-chairmanship of the U. N. Commission on Human Rights. Eleanor Roosevelt, chairman of the commission, has worked closely with the Chinese delegate on this important phase of U. N. activities...
Activity so far had been confined to committee rooms. Under the chairmanship of New Jersey's Fred Hartley Jr., the House labor committee reported out an omnibus bill which would hit organized labor almost as hard as some G.O.P. Congressmen had promised they would before election. Among other things, the House would bar the closed shop and most industry-wide bargaining. It would deny any bargaining rights to unions having Communist officers. It would give injunctive powers to the Government in disputes involving "the public health, safety or interest." It would abolish the National Labor Relations Board. Even...
...boss of TVA he had opposed every attempt of Congressmen to interfere in that undertaking. TVA had forced the private power companies out of Tennessee. Power companies were applying pressure now to keep Lilienthal out of the chairmanship...
...Communist was the German Gerhart Eisler, who was hauled up before the old Dies Committee, now under the chairmanship of New Jersey's John Parnell Thomas. Eisler was obstreperous. The committee leveled a number of charges against him and ordered him rejugged (see below...
...what extent should existing national campus units have a voice? Harvard's Douglass Cater, independent of blocs and probably the most imposing figure at the sessions (the declined the nomination for chairmanship), held this knotty question in the palm of this hand as leader of a round table on the precise nature of the organizational structure. The Texas plan demanded that all presently organized groups be barred: spokesmen from organizations as widely separately as the AVD and the parochial Newman Clubs of America asked inclusion as voting delegates. The resulting compromise called for the creation of a council...