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...form's sake, were Joseph K. Gaither and Thomas G. Gillis (the latter representing aged President Michael F. Tighe) of the little Amalgamated Steel Union, for whose withered and impotent favors the great forces of industrial and craft unionism within the A. F. of L. had just done mortal combat (TIME, June 15). Messrs. Gaither & Gillis had been members of the Amalgamated Committee which, after several weeks of nervous vacillation, had finally gone over to a group of insurgent A. F. of L. unions combined as the Committee for Industrial Organization. It was these A. F. of L. insurgents...
...important respect the British North America Act differs radically from the U. S. Constitution: it awards all un-delegated powers to the central government. Nonetheless, the "States' Rights" issue which has proved so mortal to Franklin Roosevelt's legislative program was one with which Canada's six Supreme Court Justices (the seventh lately died) found themselves primarily concerned as they waded through 500,000 words of testimony. On the basis of provincial rights 25% of the legislative foundation of Canada's New Deal went by the board. Score: two laws constitutional, one partly constitutional, two unconstitutional...
...genial influence." Stumbling through his speech, Minority Leader Snell observed: "No worthier nor more dauntless friend nor foe than Joe Byrns ever smiled across yonder dividing aisle." Late that afternoon a funeral train, with 60 Representatives and 14 Senators aboard, rolled out of Washington, bearing all that was mortal of Joe Byrns back to Tennessee for a second funeral service. Ten minutes behind it in a special train rode President Roosevelt, accompanied by Secretary Hull and Postmaster General Farley. In Nashville next day they and 45,000 of Joe Byrns's homefolk paid a last tribute to the only...
According to ancient Hebrew lore a dybbuk is the restless spirit of one who has died committing a sin. Such a spirit, it once was believed, could return to earth, take heathenish possession of an innocent mortal. In the opera last week it was the tortured Hanan who bewitched Leah. To exorcise his spell she was led before an ancient rabbi to whom Sender admitted his treachery, gladly consented to renounce half his riches. Persistent prayers were said over Leah, who dropped lifeless when Hanan's spirit left her. Finale came with their love duet, frankly lyrical, typically Italian...
...President was just shot at Ford's Theatre. The ball entered his neck. It is not known whether the wound is mortal. Intense excitement...