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...Bridges, determined to tie up the shipping on the Coast, and demonstrate his power, refused arbitration conferences then, and persisted in having his "basic demand" of the closed shop granted before any arbitration began. Instead of the active opposition used in 1934 the owners pursued a policy of watchful waiting, hoping the public would soon sicken of a strike which bade fair to dry up city after city on the Pacific Coast. The public, however, lulled into lethargy by such gilded phrases as "economic royalists", and "well warmed capitalists in well warmed clubs" that were on the lips...
...Governor Frank Murphy, as he had planned to go anyhow to attend Franklin Roosevelt's inaugural. Thither went General Motors' President Alfred P. Sloan Jr. and Executive Vice President William S. Knudsen, thither Homer Martin, president of the striking union. In Washington all these could confer with the two other vitally interested parties to the strike: John L. Lewis, overlord of the Committee for Industrial Organization, to whom the unionization of the motor industry is but one strategic move in his great labor game; and the New Deal, in whose side the strike is a great thorn...
While John Lewis hesitated, Alfred Sloan sent to Secretary Perkins a flat refusal to confer, on the grounds that strikers were still illegally in possession...
Navy Minister Nagano, instead of lining up with War Minister Terauchi, went over to confer with the politicians, the "despised civilians." Not because he was opposed to War Minister Terauchi did Navy Minister Nagano refuse to back him. His reason, and he was probably right, was that he thought that he and Terauchi would more easily get the present Diet to vote three billion yen ($850,000,000) for the Army & Navy than perform the same feat with a Diet elected by more or less angry Japanese voters who knew the Army had forced dissolution. In Tokyo, however...
...hound romantic couples when it wants to, world press applause this week for the autocratic, aristocratic Dutch way of putting over a royal wedding was a great tribute to the abilities of Premier Hendrikus Colijn. He is imperious, stuffy, vigorous and wise. Her Majesty was pleased last week to confer upon Premier Colijn the highest decoration in Queen Wilhelmina's gift, the Grand Cross of the Order of The Netherlands Lion...