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...DARters who will assemble next month. She outlined convention plans: i) to lambaste Union Now, and foreign-language schools; 2) to praise the work of "that great American, Martin Dies." Said buxom Mrs. Pouch: "Mr. Dies can never be discredited in our eyes." At their convention, DARters will probably forgo corsages, eschew orchids. Mrs. Pouch said that she had appealed to the Illinois delegation to see to it that the convention this year is not "lavish." Some of the delegates, said Mrs. Pouch, are even planning to wear old clothes. Added President Pouch: "We are going to emulate President General...
...Federal Shipbuilding and Dry dock Co.'s vast yards in Kearny, N.J., labor and management came to an impasse over a matter of policy. Wages, hours and conditions of work had already been settled or were not a matter of serious dispute. For promising 0PM to forgo strikes for a year, C.I.O. shipyard workers demanded a "union shop." Federal, a subsidiary of U.S. Steel, rejected the point on principle, stuck to Big Steel's long insistence on the open shop, turned down a Defense Mediation Board's compromise...
...last week Hoppy, who believes that "democracy might have to be willing to forgo itself to be able to save itself," was heartened by a recent change in Dartmouth undergraduate sentiment. A plurality of the senior class had plumped for immediate declaration of war on Germany. This week, as he dismissed 499 graduates at Dartmouth's 172nd commencement, he declared...
...political climate of the British Isles in 1933 was humidly antiwar. Britons did not want war. Britons did not believe there was going to be any war. They put their faith in the League of Nations and collective security. Labor was in no mood to forgo any of its privileges for the sake of national rearmament. Big business was in no mood to foot the rearmament bill. Winston Churchill might rave and rumble about the Nazi danger. But the Labor Party's Major Clement Attlee and Herbert Morrison (now Minister of Supply) struck more popular poses as humanitarians, League...
...Congressman's delight, TVA Employe Charles Hoffman testified that he had to forgo a dinner date with his best girl because she used to be Arthur Morgan's secretary, hence might constitute an unauthorized "contact." Upshot was that Dr. Morgan or any other witness designated by Senator Donahey may henceforth talk to TVA employes without hindrance from TVA bosses...