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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cowardly & Illogical." Taft called such a notion "cowardly, pusillanimous and illogical." His own proposition would cross the t's and dot the i's: in the event of peril to the nation, the President should be permitted to enjoin strikers and/or seize plants for a period of 60 days. Hard-pressed Majority Leader Lucas tried to win last-minute friends to the Administration's Thomas bill giving the President power to seize plants (usually a more potent weapon against management than labor). Florida's Spessard Holland wanted an amendment to do just the opposite and permit...
Only when Murphy began cross-examining Mrs. Hiss did her voice tighten. In contrast to Stryker's lashing attack on Esther Chambers, Murphy was a gentle, polite inquisitor. More than once Priscilla Hiss was on the edge of tears. She left the stand looking pale and tired-but with her story, like her husband's, not shaken in most of its details...
...Esther Chambers had testified that Priscilla Hiss was trying to get into a "nursing course" at Baltimore's Mercy Hospital. Priscilla Hiss denied ever discussing such a plan with Esther Chambers. A letter, which on cross-examination she admitted writing, showed that she had applied for admission to a course in inorganic chemistry at the University of Maryland on May 25, 1937, so that she could get credits she needed to get into a training course at Mercy Hospital...
...State of Alabama last week set out to prove that the cross-burning, sheeted hoodlums of the Ku Klux Klan, though they might get the headlines, did not speak for Alabama. By an 84-to-4 vote, the state legislature made it a misdemeanor ($500 fine, or a year in jail) to appear in public wearing a mask. The bill, quickly signed and put into effect by Governor Jim Folsom, was the first anti-masking law enacted in the deep South since reconstruction days...
Hotels & Highways. Newfoundland has a long way to go before it can accommodate large numbers of tourists at reasonable rates. It needs to build more roads and to finish and pave a cross-country highway. It needs a car-ferry on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and many more modern hotels, inns and cabins...