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Tough Charlie Wilson was in no mood to accommodate the labor leaders. Neither, for that matter, was Wilson's boss, Harry Truman. With diplomatic disregard for the facts of the case, he said he thought that labor's walkout was more of a disagreement than a strike. And he expected, he told his press conference, that everything would work out all right-in one week, two weeks, three months, depending on developments. It was a soft answer, but it was likely to turn away no wrath. Labor was in no mood for soft answers...
...Massachusetts and New York Bar Associations voted against the loyalty oath, Freund pointed out. Besides this, a group of 26 lawyers, among them Grenvlle Clark '03, sent a letter to the Association asking that the oath be thrown out. "The House of Delegates saw fit to disregard this letter," said Freund...
Organized labor struck against the mobilization program last week. At a sullen, midnight meeting of the Wage Stabilization Board, outvoted, unable to get their demands, labor's three WSB delegates went into an elaborate huff and quit the board. By their drastic action, taken with apparent disregard for the consequences, labor's bosses brought half of the Administration's price-wage machinery to a standstill, confronted War Mobilizer Charles Wilson with a war in his own backyard, imperiled the nation's whole economy...
Whitney's disregard of alumni status would detract from reports that Endicott "Chub" Peabody '41, Harvard's last All-American, was a strong candidate for the vacant Directorship. Peabody was prominently mentioned by the old-guard group who believed that the job should be kept in the Harvard family. He is a member of the Whitney committee...
...Office, though some groups have protested that, with the current Red Scare hysteria, such a system might jeopardize the careers of individual members. The Student Council asked that all these regulations, plus another that forbids appearances on commercial radio and T.V. programs, be junked. The Faculty Committee chose to disregard all of the Council objections, even in those cases where it had power to make the changes...