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...case of a deadlock with the management the head of the company was to render "a final decision that shall be just and fair." These labor provisions drew the A. F. of L.'s angry protest for, if approved, they would balk its unionization campaign at the outset. Last week Steel and Labor were preparing for a red-hot battle at hearings before the National Recovery Administration...
...call of Jew-Gobbler Rosenberg was on Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon. Exactly what passed, Britain did not learn last week, but the Daily Herald, frequently better informed than other London newspapers through tips from Laborite M. P.'s, announced that Dr. Rosenberg "ruined his chances at the outset" by declaring Germany's definite intention to fight for the manufacture of heavy guns, tanks, airplanes. Sir John is reported to have said that no support for German schemes could be expected from British public opinion. In the House, where all could quote him, Sir John announced crisply...
...Manchukuo and the League. For that he is well equipped. Taken to Oregon at the age of 12 he lived there until after his graduation from the State University. He speaks English with only the faintest accent, thoroughly understands U. S. psychology, as he showed at the very outset of his interview...
...forces around him, and the easiest way to do this is to build up a solid bureaucracy. In order to be this it was necessary to remove all the Jews now holding office, and to fill the vacant places with loyal supporters. Secondly, Hitler was forced at the outset, to give vent to the personal prejudices of his colleagues and the Nazi rank-and-file. Again, the new German dictator is a sufficiently astute politician to recognize that to hold power he must have constantly before the people a live issue, a body of emotional material to capitalize into votes...
Harding tried it for a little while, then insisted that questions be submitted in advance, in writing. Coolidge refused ever to be quoted, created the "White House Spokesman." He too invited written questions, which he usually ignored. Hoover won applause at the outset by abolishing the "spokesman." His very first sentence to assembled newsmen-"It seems that the whole Press of the United States has given me the honor of a call this morning"-was considered momentous because it was the first direct quotation from a President in years. But like his predecessors, President Hoover soon decreed that questions must...