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Three principles should govern a new national labor policy, he thinks. First, disputes should be settled as far as possible by collective bargaining; he rejects the idea of labor courts rendering arbitrary decisions. Second, Government should stay out of labor disputes except where the lawful rights of individuals or the interests of the public are paramount. Third, all parties should be given equal justice, made equally responsible under...
...Molotov finally agreed that the governor should govern in concert with the assembly; that the governor should control the police in time of "emergency"; that the governor should decide when an emergency existed. In ordinary times, the Russian insisted, the police should be controlled by the assembly. Messrs. Byrnes and Bevin appreciated these concessions, but they were troubled by the idea of divided police allegiance. Under what conditions could the governor hire & fire the police chief? Mr. Molotov said that the police matter could be settled more quickly if the Anglo-U.S. bargainers would set a time limit...
...brisk leap from a weak fifth to at least a strong third among Italian parties made that Italy's No. 1 political question. The pudgy onetime theatrical producer (who looks like a jovial Eric von Stroheim) denounced Mussolini, of course, but he also said: "You cannot govern without exercising dictatorial power." His program was vague. On domestic questions it was a hash of the ideas of Thomas Jefferson, Henry Wallace and Franklin D. Roosevelt, but with a strong flavor of Huey Long. Playing no favorites, Giannini hailed the Republican sweep in the U.S. as a victory of "the uomo...
John White explored the Virginia coast in 1585, and two years later Sir Walter Raleigh sent him back to found and govern a colony. He sailed back to England with watercolors of American butterflies, turtles, and of an Indian tomb-temple on stilts, decorated with the skins and bones of ten mummified chiefs. When he returned to Virginia three years later, the colony had vanished...
...statement that attendance is required was actually modified by the pronouncement that "each student in good standing will have to decide for himself whether his work will be seriously affected by absence from class on that day and govern himself accordingly...