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Last week as the Black Committee resumed its scratching in the Power lobby's backyard, after a six-month layoff, discovery of the Committee's interim activities roused a mighty howl throughout the land, which showed that many & many a citizen still regarded his privacy as something more than a "fiction." Backed up by court action, it promised to result in a showdown on the headline-making power of Congress to probe the affairs of private citizens at will...
...howl of protest from all sides may be expected this morning to greet the announcement that meal prices will rise next year. It is only natural to assume that those who have, wanting to cling to their dollars, and those who have not, confronting the prospect of being forced to find more dollars, will point to the $40,000 which the dining halls turned over to Student Employment last year and ask the reason for the boost...
Escrowed taxes, which the Supreme Court ordered returned last week (see p. 17), may prove something of a headache. It is highly unlikely that the corporations which will share this $200,000,000 windfall will be able to add it to surplus without a mighty howl from their customers. In innumerable lawsuits the customers will probably demand rebates on goods purchased since the seller started to pay his tax into escrow...
Since the history of the class war is studded with such affrays, most likely the howl sent up by liberal and radical organizations would have soon died in an ineffective sob. But it just happened that the American Federation of Labor selected Tampa as its 1936 meeting place. And it just happened that at the present time, Labor's conservative William Green would like to salve his radical membership. Upshot was that he and Socialist Norman Thomas went into a huddle and the Mayor of Tampa gave Police Chief Tittsworth "indefinite leave of absence" to "investigate the case." First...
...sure," sneered M. Blum, "that if you had been able to do so you would have promulgated your budget by decree instead of convoking the Chamber!" M. Laval, his eyes narrowing a trifle, shot back: "That is precisely what I would have done." As Radical Deputies set up a howl Socialist Blum crowed: "I underline the gravity of this confession!" Pierre Laval only shrugged. Few minutes later the Premier asked a vote of confidence on the issue that...