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...worth $4,600 a year, then Sally Rand, strip-tease artist from my own Congressional district, ought to be employed at once because she would, on this scale, be worth at least $25,000 a year to civilian defense." In full-throated chorus, the House voted to forbid the use of civilian defense funds for "instructions in physical fitness by dancers, fan dancing, street shows, theatrical performances or other public entertainment," amended a $100,000,000 appropriation bill to make sure that no dancer would...
Eight days later he took off again. With no lights, no ship-to-shore radio, no forewarning signals of arrivals, Captain Ford took the Clipper westward 31,500 miles through twelve countries to New York. The Army's G-2 considered the course secret enough to forbid the crew's talking about it last week on their arrival. Probable route was New Caledonia, Australia, the Dutch East Indies, Ceylon, the Arabian Sea, the Gulf of Aden, Arabia, Africa, the South Atlantic, and up from South America...
Like the Creel Committee, the new Price censorship has no authority directly to mete out punishments or forbid the publication of news. His vast powers are derived chiefly from the Espionage Act of 1917, which is still on the books...
...present situation in regard to the closed shop; 2) require long cooling-off periods in labor disputes; 3) require a majority vote of the workers in a Government-held election in order to make a strike legal; 4) strip "illegal" strikers of the protection of labor laws; 5) forbid picketing of plants by others than their own workers. The bill would also bar from union office Bundists, Communists and felons, would require unions to file complete, honest and detailed organizational and financial reports-a form of publicity to which A.F. of L. and C.I.O. are alike bitterly opposed...
...public temper could be judged by a Gallup poll, taken before the coal-mine dispute. Even before John Lewis staged his Ajax-defying-the-lightning act, 73% of voters agreed that the Government should forbid strikes in defense industries. Report of a survey taken among union members themselves should have given Labor Leader Lewis pause. Workers voted 56% in favor of forbidding defense strikes; only 39% were opposed; 5% undecided...