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WASHINGTON--The Smith NLRB Investigating Committee today issued subpoenas for four top-ranking government officials to appear for questioning tomorrow as a Congressional drive began to overturn an administrative ruling which would deny defense contracts to firms violating federal labor laws...
...citizens' rights. The only point upon which the quarreling Royalists and Republicans could agree was specific legislation to protect the nation against a personal dictatorship. The late reign of Napoleon III still fresh in mind, the Assembly invested the Chamber of Deputies with extensive powers, enabling it to overturn the Government. Interpreting their Constitution broadly, leaving much to precedent, and ignoring certain parts of it (e.g., the law which gave the President, with the Senate approval, the right to dissolve the Chamber of Deputies), Frenchmen made it work for 65 years, based on it their proverb: Only the provisional...
Next day the editor snorted in his front-page column: "When you help to overturn a man's applecart, wreck his gravy train, expose his motives and frustrate his purposes, it is but natural for him to be indignant about it. However . . . not even a rattlesnake will attack without warning...
After Seven Years of New Deal Control. The American depression struck bottom in 1932. The United States could reasonably have been expected to accompany the other major nations of the world into a steady recovery if a drastic political overturn had not then subjected American enterprise to an unpredictable politics and an unworkable economics...
...HAVEN, Conn. (UP)--Yale University students and "townies" joined forces tonight in an effort to overturn an automobile containing Earl Browder, Communist Party general secretary, after he had made a speech in a campus building despite opposition of veterans' organizations and refusal of other universities to permit his appearance on their grounds...