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...Keys petition touched off management's first open answer. To four Congressional committees G.M.'s President Charles E. Wilson sent a blistering 816-word telegram. "The dual allegiance which will arise when foremen are unionized will imperil their ability to fulfill their responsibilities. ... It is easy to visualize the complete breakdown of authority and internal plant discipline...
...from Pekin, Ill., longtime, profound Roosevelt-hating Isolationist, solemnly proclaimed on the floor the House his future support of the President's policy. He added, amid silence and Republican consternation: "To disavow or oppose that policy now could only weaken the President's position, impair prestige and imperil the nation...
Second point of attack is the primary in September, when the Governor will try for a knockout by backing anti-Hague candidates, men who supported the railroad-tax revision. If Edison's men win, their victory may imperil Boss Hague's grip on the State Democratic machine, which usually carries only two or three of the State's 21 counties but rolls up a majority of more than 100,000 in Hague's Hudson County-enough to insure the Boss' Statewide rule. Informed that Edison was already taking the field for a series of speeches...
...problem in foreign policy. Wholly aside from what war would cost the U. S. in human suffering, in economic and political sacrifice, there were other excellent reasons for not fighting Japan. Foremost of these was the fact that there is a war going on in Europe whose outcome may imperil the security of the U. S. far more than Japan's seizure of the Indies...
...from his desk in the U. S. Senate one day last week rose round-shouldered, wraithlike Homer Truett Bone. Loudly he wondered why "the stubbornness of one man" (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) should be allowed to imperil the lives of 900 American refugees bound for the U. S. from Finland aboard the U. S. Army transport American Legion. The State Department gave no official explanation of why the route of the American Legion was not changed after Germany refused to guarantee her safe conduct through mined British waters north of Scotland...