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Like the Creel Committee, the new Price censorship has no authority directly to mete out punishments or forbid the publication of news. His vast powers are derived chiefly from the Espionage Act of 1917, which is still on the books...
...Among dozens of proposals: measures to mete out life imprisonment, even death to those who foment strikes in defense industries. Only bill that has a chance of being acted upon: the Vinson Bill, which allows the Mediation Board to freeze the status of a plant, pending the Board's decision on a dispute provides for a 30-day "cooling off" period...
...toughen them morally as well as mentally and physically, Miss Ruutz-Rees made her girls enact their own rules of conduct, mete out their own punishments. Result is strict discipline. For eating candy (only fruit is allowed between meals), a Rosemarian is kept "on bounds" for two weeks. Some other rules: no chewing gum or cigarets (except for sixth formers), no lipstick or nail polish while in uniform, no reading unpermissioned literature or attending unpermissioned movies...
WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt today criticized as reprehensible the conduct of persons in Michigan who throw eggs at Wendell L. Willkie and urged the state to mete out swift punishment...
...first director of the Budget. He declared his belief that the public debt soars because Government departments are putting one over on Franklin Roosevelt; that if the next President would make his department heads swear fealty to the idea of budget balancing, and if a "coordinating control system" would mete out each department's funds, deficits would end. (Three days later, indignant Franklin Roosevelt, who has not been to a C. of C. convention in seven years, told some 5,000 Democratic women that boards were no way to balance a budget, made his oft-repeated challenge: to balance...