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...Dykstra Mediation Board (TIME, March 31) had held a brief preliminary meeting, had heard hopeful words from its chair man ("We shall ... try to appeal to the sound sense and the good will of all true Americans") and - adjourned. The Mediation Board could not deal with any strike until Madam Secretary Perkins gave the word ; and there was no word from Madam Perkins. Labor's man on OPM, Sidney Hillman, was Florida-bound, sick after a winter of worry and work. President Roosevelt was somewhere off the Florida coast. Labor's Perkins was junketing...
Last year Dean James McCawley Landis of Harvard Law School put alien, unnaturalized C. I. O. Longshoreman Harry Bridges to the legal rack, found that he could not legally be considered a member of the Communist Party. Radical Alien Bridges was therefore not subject to de portation by Madam Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (TIME...
This time he was up against a tougher case. After him this time was not Madam Perkins but Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson. And up Mr. Jackson's sleeve were a couple of snickersnees: 1) a new, detailed FBI report on Bridges; 2) a new law (Alien Registration Act of 1940) making any alien deportable who ever belonged to a party preaching violent overthrow of the U. S. Government. (Dean Landis had to rule only on whether Bridges was a Communist Party member at the time 1938 deportation proceedings against him were begun...
...fewer than before the war, due both to petrol rationing and raids, but I've always been able to get one. On Oct. 4, I taxied from Blackfriars to Harley Street during a raid. Suddenly the guns went into action overhead. My driver turned to me and said: "Madam, the raiders are overhead, would you care to take cover?" "Not unless you want to," I replied. He withered me with a look and drove on. This is the rule, not the exception...
Pleasantest dialogue of recent weeks was provided by a colored lady whose husband beat her. "Are you a mother?" inquired Mr. Anthony softly. "Ah is," the lady said. "And have you any children?" "Ah has." "How many, madam?" "Twenty-three...