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...lost. Though this certainly appeared to be whistling in the dark, it was equally certain that the four steel allies-Bethlehem. Republic, Inland and Youngstown Sheet & Tube-had not heard the last of S. W. O. C. From now on the strike will become a campaign of attrition-to harass the companies at every step with the hope of raising the cost of making steel to a point where any settlement would seem sweet...
...stripling in Chicago, a young man in Manhattan he showed the same kind of promise as the Napoleonic private with a marshal's baton in his knapsack. On the U. S. literary front of 15 years ago, if they wanted a man to encourage the van or to harass the foe from the rear, Burton Rascoe was just the man. This week, when he published his long-promised reminiscences, he was no longer even a front-line sentinel. The tide of literary battle had flowed over him, left him well in the rear, guarding nothing more strategic than...
...emerges clear and bright the bottom of the affair. It is obvious that Professor Seavey's comparison of the ex-governor with Chicago's notorious Thompson was an analogy unintended to be malicious. There few men in the teaching profession so tactless and unaware of their position as to harass a living public name openly and directly, especially when the son of that name sits in their classroom...
...foreign policy unplumbed since the resignation as Foreign Secretary of Sir Samuel Hoare (TIME, Dec. 30). Most effective spokesmen for His Majesty's Loyal Opposition are has-been Prime Minister David Lloyd George, 73, and has-been Labor Party Leader George Lansbury, 77. Last week they tried to harass His Majesty's Government into fulfilling the pre-election pledge given by Prime' Minister Stanley Baldwin actively to support "collective security" and the League of Nations in measures for Peace...
...Civil suits will be launched against one or more important holding companies as test cases. "It is . . . not the purpose of the Government to harass the utility industry with a needless multiplicity of suits," Attorney General Cummings instructed his local prosecutors. "Equally, however, there is no public interest to be served by vexing the Government with a multiplicity of injunction suits which . . . might result in the presentation of the issue of constitutionality on the basis of an inadequate record or a record not fairly typical of the situation covered...