Word: government
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indications that the NRA in now beginning to face the realities of making a capitalist system work are given by the fact that labor has been denied its demand for representation on the committees which govern coded industries. As a sop the government may provide for boards of laborers and consumers to "observe." This is typical of the gradual way in which labor must be cased out of the picture, after having been put in with much idealistic fanfare...
...Statesman Leo XIII: "Every minister of holy religion must throw into the conflict all the energy of his mind and all the strength of his endurance." Last week Father Coughlin also reminded the Press of Pius XI's strictures against "those few who . . . hold and control money ... govern credit . . . grasp, as it were, in their hands the very soul of production so that no one dares breathe against their will...
...President's eye was cocked last week toward his home State, whose Liquor Board published a list of rules & regulations to govern New York's drinking until the New York Legislature meets next January to pass permanent laws. Some two dozen other states were formulating their own codes or had already done so, but the White House was known to be hoping that New York's regulations would serve as a model for others...
...British proletariat to be prepared to resist "lest British Fascism come like a thief in the night!" Nationally ready for class war, Labor's Cripps is internationally a pacifist. He induced the last Labor Congress to adopt a motion pledging the Party to refuse to support any British Govern-ment which might make war and to stop hostilities if necessary by organizing a general strike (TIME, Oct. 16). In all recent British by-elections Labor candidates have drawn their loudest cheers by restating variations of this anti-war pledge and Sir Stafford loomed last week as easily the Party...
...addition to being extremely deleterious to Cuba, this temporizing policy is of no benefit to this country; its only virtue is that it does not commit the State Department to anything and lets it straddle the real issue of whether C'ba is to be allowed to govern itself or is to be an American dependency. Inasmuch as its only effect is to prolong the misery of the Cuban people, it should be abandoned immediately and for it substituted a clear and forceful policy...