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Last week, on the twelfth day of headlong Chairman Biddle's term, a bill of complaint in equity was filed in Attorney General Cummings' name against the Houde Corp. in Federal Court in Buffalo. In three different ways the Government asked that the firm be judicially directed to deal with the A. F. of L. union alone. Houde was given 20 days to answer. Thus was the stage set for the first round of the first legal test of the Labor Relations Board's collective bargaining creed, a test the final round of which would undoubtedly...
Bumping down the steep lava-baked slopes of Mt. Vesuvius one day last week, a tourist-laden car of the funicular railway jumped its cable, gathered speed, left the rails, crashed headlong into an electric power pole, killed a French honeymoon couple, an Italian guide, four others, injured nine...
This tangled network of friendships and antipathies is the strongest influence for preserving peace at this time. It does not, of course, remove the possibility that unreasoning nationalist sentiments may be aroused into headlong action. Nevertheless, the very atmosphere of uncertainty should cause governments to tread warily...
Only setback to the headlong Long week came from the U. S. Supreme Court. After General Samuel Tilden Ansell had counseled a Senatorial investigation into the Long political machine in 1932, Senator Long broadcast by mail circulars declaring that the onetime Judge Advocate General had been "practically run out of the Army for fraud." General Ansell started a $500,000 libel suit. Senator Long claimed Constitutional immunity. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that a Congressman's remarks on the floor are privileged but he could not escape service of a civil summons...
This was recognition from the President who had promised a New Deal to labor and then condoned the erection of a concentration camp in Georgia; the President who had pledged a redistribution of wealth and then allowed real wages to tumble headlong under his recovery program; the President who had proclaimed that his rule would be one of "enlightenment" and then sanctioned the destruction of food while millions starved; the president who had preached "industrial democracy" and stood by while strikers were slaughtered by his own troops because they dared ask for subsistence; the President who had mouthed the phrases...