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Opposition flared forthwith. Mississippi's Democratic Representative William Colmer, a Rules committeeman from Pascagoula (fisheries, textiles), leaned far back in his chair and drawled: "Isn't it true that a closed rule is really a gag?" Jere Cooper looked hurt, answered the attack with a defense of the trade bill itself. Said he: "The studies show that where a product is in bad shape, it is not so much the tariff rate that is causing it, but normal changes in tastes and customs. The felt-hat industry has complained. Well, it's not the tariff that...
...reconfirmation was acknowledged in grease pencil on my ticket-envelope but we had no record of it, sir, and would I please step over with the standbys. At Knoxville the next day I reconfirmed to Washington when I landed and two days later the boys pulled the same gag on me. This time I blew up and bad temper got me on the plane. Blowing up. by everyone, on every occasion, may be the answer-so far as there is one. Business management's first solution to every problem, frequently its only one, is to increase the budget...
Guided by Lawyer Joseph Alioto, Mary Ryan and five other prominent teachers wrote to Mayor Elmer Robinson urging him to reappoint Chairman Charles Foehn of the Board of Education, the only member to vote against the political gag. Then, just to make sure that their insubordination would be noticed, they wrote letters in favor of various candidates to the city health system and the city retirement system boards. Thus defied, the Board of Education faced a dilemma. Should it risk firing six of the city's top teachers? Or should it simply try to overlook the whole affair...
Last week 250 citizens jammed into the board's regular meeting to see what it would do. At first the members-Chairman Foehn presiding-hemmed and hawed. Finally, one member moved that the political gag be reconsidered. The move was defeated 4 to 3, but with Foehn's vote, this was a gain of two "ayes" for the teachers. Then the board tried to squeeze out of its predicament by considering an amendment excluding the health and retirement systems from its rule. It never mentioned the six insubordinate teachers, left the pertinent documents in the case sitting quietly...
...from disapproving Teacher Ryan's tactics, Mayor Robinson wrote to thank her and her fellow teachers for their "civic-minded interest." But Mary Ryan herself is not through yet. At the risk of job and pension, she intends to continue the fight until the political gag on her colleagues is removed entirely. Said her attorney: "The board is obviously not going to meet our challenge. But we're going to keep peppering them with this thing. We may even make a legitimate endorsement of a candidate for mayor when the time comes and the various candidates are known...