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...wafting a lifted eyebrow on the air. But until Nazi armies got mired in Russia the job of broadcasting from Berlin, though it took gall and patience, could be honorably carried out. After CBS got tough last summer (TIME, July 28), it even seemed that Berlin would relax its clamp, at least on "color broadcasts." Instead, the personal war of nerves between radio correspondents and censors grew bitterer...
...patent medicines last week for a social bellyache, the labor situation. Labor leaders did not like the whiffs they got from the brew. To A.F. of L. President William Green, the legislation smelt like "a violation of the Constitution." C.I.O. President Philip Murray called it an effort to clamp upon "the total American economy a rigid status of enforced labor." The May, Connally and Vinson bills, said labor, jeopardized the right to picket, established compulsory arbitration, deprived labor of its right to strike...
...Clamp down on sales to Russia, Japan...
...right to strike during the defense program. Loudest wranglers on the subject have been labor-baiting Congressmen, exploding spasmodically with anti-strike proposals. Typical was the bill proposed by Chairman Vinson, of the House Naval Affairs Committee, which would discourage unionism by prohibiting the closed shop in defense plants, clamp a "cooling-off" period on disputes...
...ruling should not be taken to mean that Harvard University intends in the future to clamp down on minority views--to repress unpopular causes in the Yard. Little basis for such accusations may be found in the records of the Dean's Office. Harvard's Young Communist League, for instance, has not in the past been prevented from distributing its flyers, although because it fears discrimination, it has refused to register at University Hall. Under the new regulations, such outlaw groups will still be liable to suppression. But Dean von Stade assures us this will not be the case. Official...