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Since the Board temporarily cut off funds for Illinois last year on far less flagrant provocation, that was the prospect which at week's end disturbed many a worthy old Oklahoman...
...long been among the stubbornest and most effective opponents of the New Deal's labor policies. In 1933-35, Weirton Steel bluntly snubbed NRA by refusing to hold a labor board election, and was upheld by a Wilmington, Del. Federal district judge. This time Weirton was accused of flagrant violation of the 1935 Wagner Labor Relations Act, of favoring its two company unions (Employees Representation Plan and Weirton Employees Security League) to the exclusion of all others- mainly C. I. O.'s Amalgamated Iron, Steel & Tin Workers-of terrorizing, intimidating, bribing, coercing its workers...
...proceedings did not fail to recognize the formal purpose of the investigation: to find means of plugging holes in the income tax law, not just to ferret out individual tax dodgers. Chairman Doughton read a short statement saying that none but "those who used flagrant means of tax avoidance'' need be uneasy about the coming inquisition. Secretary Morgenthau in a monotone told the committee that nowadays there are 45,000 tax lawyers and accountants, specialists in saving their clients taxes, that often it is difficult to tell the difference "between tax avoidance which is proper and tax-evasion...
...Catholic and his first political stronghold was Bavaria, the most intensely Catholic part of the Reich. Last week on the Führer's orders Bavarian Minister of Interior Adolf Wagner closed every Catholic public school in Bavaria, fired 670 teachers, secularized 966 schools. This was in flagrant violation of the Nazi Concordat with the Vatican (TIME, July 17, 1933 and ailing Pope Pius, attended by twelve cardinals, was reported to feel that an open diplomatic rupture between the Hooked-Cross (Swastika) and the Cross cannot be much longer avoided. Meanwhile the great bulk of German Protestants who, like...
...standard Dictionary of American Slang, Lexicographer Maurice H. Weseen defines a "love nest" as "the home of a newly married couple." Uncovered last week in Culver City, Calif, was the most flagrant example in years of what every tabloid editor and reader means by a "love nest." None of the participants, mostly high-school students from Beverly Hills, was married...