Word: partings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gesture of practical concession by the Government will time and again be seized upon by a minority element as the sign that the Government is on the run. We will have to expect some such bad manners, but we will take them in our stride because that is part of the job of being a public servant...
This week the U. S. Supreme Court, reversing an NLRB order to Fansteel to rehire the strikers, ruled out the sit-down for good & all. Said Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes (Justices Reed & Black dissenting in part*): "The employes had the right to strike, but they had no license to commit acts of violence or to seize their employer's plant. ... To justify such conduct [as NLRB had justified it] because of the existence of a labor dispute or of an unfair labor practice would be to put a premium on resort to force instead of legal remedies...
...tiny (210 sq. mi.), windy, rocky island called Guam was acquired by the U. S. in 1898 as part of its Spanish conquest. With the liberation of the Philippine Commonwealth, it will become the easternmost U. S. possession, 3,300 mi. beyond Hawaii, only 1,500 mi. from Manila. Regardless of the Philippines' status as a trade protectorate (which Franklin Roosevelt has recommended extending beyond 1946 to 1960), the Navy has pictured Guam, with its potentially fine harbor of Apra, as a likely Pacific outpost. If heavily fortified it would move the U. S. first line of Pacific defense...
...Club, when Coach Hodder shifted Freddie DeRahm, who has been playing on the second line this year, up to the position of right winger on the first trio with Austie Harding and Joe Patrick. This shift will put DeRahm back on the same combination that he played with during part of last season...
Portraying the rustic Cinderella who comes to Hollywood via the movie quiz route is D. Gordon Halstead '40. James H. Legendre '40 plays the erring matinee idol, and Philip C. Starr '40 takes the part of his leading lady. The three producers are Richard E. Lewis '40, William, D. Collins '40 and James T. Devine '40; James G. Walsh '39 plays the manager of the box office team...