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...Dies Committee got set to grill C.I.O. leaders; proposals for three more investigations were dropped into the House hopper. Many besides Congressmen wondered: has U.S. labor at last united into a political force, able to reward its friends and punish its enemies...
...Walter F.George predicted that the new tax, which Congress had hoped would bring in $90,000,000, will actually bring in less than the old 5% tax. He advocated that the tax be reduced to 15 or 20%. Minnesota's Harold Knutson had already tossed in the House hopper a resolution to lower...
...chine for cracking English walnuts. On a conveyer belt, the nuts pass under a buzz saw which nicks holes in them; next they get an injection of oxygen and acetylene and move on to a flame which explodes the shells. The nut meat drops neatly into a hopper...
Murray put in the Congressional hopper a bill to make into law their recommendations on contract termination. While the bill went over some ground already covered by Elder Statesmen Bernie Baruch and John Hancock in their standard termination clause (TIME, Jan. 17), it plugged up several big loopholes they missed. The bill would...
...before conceiving a child may be one of many malicious exaggerations. But it is the sort of poetic license that characterizes a legendary career. Louella Parsons may not have the biggest circulation of any syndicated film columnist. Erskine Johnson, Robbin Coons and Lolly's famed rival Hedda Hopper, all probably outcirculate her. But she gets a minimum 2,000 fan letters a week, and in lush seasons 5,000. Her batting average on scoops is .800, a record which no other journalist living or dead has remotely approached. Her appetite for gossip is insatiable, her power through gossip imperial...