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...formal complaint was aimed at the 26 major steel companies and the American Iron & Steel Institute, gave them until Sept. 19 to answer. In prospect was a "cease-and-desist" order by FTC to break up the industry's "basing point" system...
When the committee chairman, New Jersey's Congressman J. Parnell Thomas, directed him to desist and be sworn, he refused. Thomas warned: "Remember, you are a guest of the country." This was too much. Eisler began beating on the table and yelling, "I am an antiFascist. I am not a guest of the country. I am a political prisoner...
...well as those exciting sumptuary or religious passions. Therefore, Labor members were indignant last week when they discovered that Conservative members were franking a slogan not clearly covered by law but clearly not cricket: "Happy New Year and a new government soon." The Laborites protested. The Tories promised to desist...
...Moslem-Hindu riots: The army ought "only to be used for maintaining cleanliness, cultivating unused land and the like," the police "only to catch bona fide thieves." The most effective way to stop religious fights, he suggested, "is that one of the parties to mutual slaughter should desist...
...Soviet Union, either as a whole or in separate parts." Gromyko explained that Russia wants a treaty by which the signatory nations would agree not to produce or use atomic bombs. Within three months of signing, all nations manufacturing atomic explosives (i.e., the U.S.) would cease & desist and destroy their stockpiles. Within six months each nation would enact laws severely punishing treaty violations which might occur within its own borders...