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WASHINGTON--Efforts by the Defense Mediation Board to end the 27-day-old soft coal tie up which is menacing preparedness production collapsed tonight and vice-Chairman William H. Davis said no further action by the agency was scheduled...
With fellow members of the Mediation Board, he called management and labor into conference, calmed them by being calm, let each side give its account of the 75-day-old fight. Then he began to ask questions, avoiding questions which could be answered No. He covered the main point of the controversy by writing an agreement which gave the union security against attempts to organize another union within the plant, and reassured the company that no man's job depended on union membership...
...spoke the sober Stockholm Tidningen last week as Sweden, only one of the Oslo Group's six peaceful powers as yet unscathed by war, prepared to recast her shattered foreign policy, seek a strong new friend in Moscow. What disgusted the Swedes as much as anything was that day-old German papers, arriving in Sweden the morning of the Lowlands invasion, front-paged an official D. N. B. declaration that all talk of such an invasion was a pack of inflammatory British lies. The Swedes, with a two-week-old guarantee from Hitler in their pocket, promptly blacked...
...William Franklin Dove of the University of Maine showed that Cuvier was wrong. Dr. Dove's own researches had revealed that at birth the horn buds were not attached to the skull but were independent "centres of ossification." Accordingly, he decided to try making a unicorn of a day-old Ayrshire. Flaps of skin containing the horn cores were cut out and the cores were joined in the centre, at the top end of the suture in the bone...
...Buenos Aires representatives of the U. S., Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru and Uruguay, sitting as the executive committee of the Chaco Peace Conference, had just announced that on the following day at 6 p. m. they would recognize the Colonel's 25-day-old Government. When they read its proclamation they abruptly changed their minds. Like Hitler and like Stalin, dictatorial Franco spoke of his gang as constituting "The Revolution" and announced that it is the State. In 1936 this has become the usual crude variant of Louis XIV's elegant platitude, L'etat...