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...Flower") LaGuardia last week marched indignant New York City florists. Their complaint: School principals, sympathizing with depression-pinched parents, had nipped in the bud an old U. S. custom: flowers at graduation. Cried Spokesman Anthony Gillis (to no avail): "Every year we look forward to graduation. Now flowers are forbidden. This goes to show there is something wrong somewhere...
...last week British Broadcasting Corp. staged a unique and peculiarly British program, a broadcast strictly for dogs. This was the sort of thing decorous Director-General Sir John Reith might have forbidden in his time, but strait-laced Sir John was replaced last October by heartier Frederick Wolff Ogilvie. "Calling All Dogs" was announced as an experiment to find out just what broadcasting means to dogs. So British radio owners were asked to have their dogs listen in, and to report their dogs' reactions to the broadcast...
Reader Henry evidently failed to consider the fact that lynchings in America are not approved or incited by the authorities. They are forbidden by law and condemned by a majority of American citizens; whereas persecution of the minorities in Germany is fostered and undertaken by the state as a part of its national policy. . . . Such an analogy is absurd...
...That Federal relief recipients and dispensers alike be forbidden to contribute any money whatsoever to political campaign funds, and relief executives be forbidden to coerce or solicit such funds, or have others do it for them...
...important point for other employers was that NLRB, suspecting connivance to defeat Consolidated workers' preference for C. I. O., had forbidden the company to deal with A. F. of L.'s unions. In finding that Consolidated should deal with both A. F. of L. and C. I. O. for their respective members, the Court presumably left intact the principle that NLRB may void contracts when collusion is sufficiently proved. But Justices Reed and Black took pains to dissent, say the Board did retain this power-thus implying that the majority might think...