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...wrote into its statute book a sweeping "labor-regulating" law (similar to laws of Kansas, Florida, Colorado and Alabama). Most offensive to organized labor and involving the Constitutional issue of free speech is a provision which requires labor organizers to get a permit from the Secretary of State be fore they may solicit union memberships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Get Arrested | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...making it impossible for them to stretch their necks; when he tried it on a rooster, he found that it changed the crowing into a wail. In Clarendon, Tex., Mrs. Don Grady, fixing a chicken for dinner, discovered inside it a diamond she had lost four months be fore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Aug. 30, 1943 | 8/30/1943 | See Source »

...Army dentist joined the unit. He was no help on most wounds and did not know how to scrub up. "He washed his hands just like any dentist does be fore he sticks his thumb in your mouth." But when Seagrave got a puzzling jaw case, the dentist stepped forward. "I let him go to it with a sigh of relief. By George, that fellow certainly knew his job! By the time he had finished I had something I could really drape that face over." Captain Grindlay from Harvard and the Mayo Clinic appeared. At first he seemed disgruntled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Speaking of Operations | 8/16/1943 | See Source »

Down the launching ways at the big Bethlehem Fore River shipyard at Quincy, Mass, slid the destroyer escort Harmon, first U.S. warship named for a Negro. Navy Secretary Frank Knox had assigned the name in honor of Roy Harmon, Navy messman, who gave his life aboard the cruiser San Francisco in the Battle of Guadalcanal last November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - Honor for a Sailor | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

Certain facts about Ideal Marine Lou Diamond the Corps admitted reluctantly: that his real first name is Leland, that he is 53 years old, got through grammar school and eight years as switchman on the Michigan Central ($62.50 a week) be fore signing up in 1917. These contradict what every Marine has long sworn is truth: that Lou Diamond is at least 200, joined the Corps in 1775, has never been anything but a Marine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy: In the Rough | 7/5/1943 | See Source »

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