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Activity so far had been confined to committee rooms. Under the chairmanship of New Jersey's Fred Hartley Jr., the House labor committee reported out an omnibus bill which would hit organized labor almost as hard as some G.O.P. Congressmen had promised they would before election. Among other things, the House would bar the closed shop and most industry-wide bargaining. It would deny any bargaining rights to unions having Communist officers. It would give injunctive powers to the Government in disputes involving "the public health, safety or interest." It would abolish the National Labor Relations Board. Even...
Massachusetts legislation as well as the "omnibus" bill which reaches the House floor today will be hit by the campaign, which aims primarily to call forth letters of protest to Congressmen from individual students...
...notes Editor Maurice Richardson, "there are the rigid categories of detective story, thriller, and ghost story, with several subdivisions to each . . , but in the last century they could all be lumped together as Tales of Mystery and Imagination." Along with The Woman in White in Editor Richardson's omnibus are Robert Louis Stevenson's* famed Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The Notting Hill Mystery, written by an unknown disciple of Wilkie Collins, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla, in which a deadly vampire lady passes her days snugly in a blood-filled coffin, her nights with...
...Stopped Omnibus. Near the old Statehouse of the Confederacy he noted "one of those decent and dumb American churches which are so strangely possessed of the secret of minimizing, to the casual eye, the general pretension of churches...
...Looking for the most part no more established or seated than a stopped omnibus, they are reduced to the inveterate bourgeois level (that of private, accommodated pretensions merely) and fatally despoiled of the fine old ecclesiastical arrogance...