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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Home was the word last week, home to Tallahassee, Tonopah, Cheyenne, home to Havana, Ill., Searcy, Ark., Atherton, Calif., Tacoma, Wash., Jasper, Ala., Yankton, S. Dak., Clovis, N. Mex.-home to the 531 communities, hamlets, cities and wide places in the roads where dwell the 531 Congressmen and Senators of the U. S. For debate on the arms embargo was over. And as President, Vice President, Senators, Representatives and their wives, secretaries and advisers hurried home last week, it was plain that few big legislative discussions in U. S. history had ever begun so tensely, ended so quietly...
Ignoring Wendell Willkie, Chairman Dies applied himself to the wobbly reputation of C. I. O.'s National Maritime Union. A burly, tattooed, gap-toothed ex-Communist and ousted union official, William C. McCuistion, testified that 28 N. M. U. officers (including President Joe Curran) were Communists, that 93% of the 40,000 members were deluded nonCommunists. Witness McCuistion's mother, crinkled Mrs. Dolly Crawford, declared that Joe Curran once told her just how Communists would take over the U. S. by passive infiltration into unions, Federal offices, etc. On the same day that Mrs. Crawford testified, Joe Curran...
Thumbing through his mail about a year ago, A. F. of L.'s President William Green came across a letter from Princeton, N. J. The missive suggested that in these troubled times Mr. Green could do himself and the public a service by writing a book on Labor's role in democracy. This week Labor and Democracy* appeared under William Green's signature.† Mr. Green being a busy and none too articulate man, readers could reasonably conclude that his first book was the fruit of collaboration with some brainy hireling...
...China-oxcart, ass, camel, over miserable roads-are unbearably slow, and because trucks so often break down in Chinese hands, these lines are so heavily booked that some passengers have to wait a month for a seat. The planes are always filled to maximum capacity. Eurasia flies Junkers, C. N. A. C. flies Douglases, and both use German Telefunken wireless compasses and direction-finders-among the best in the world...
Last week C. N. A. C. inaugurated a new service between Chungking, capital of China, and Rangoon, capital of Burma. The famed Burma Road is the most important ground line of communications between free China and the outside world, and for those who must see that China gets the essential materials of war, the parallel air route is indispensable...