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Said NLRB's tough general counsel, Robert N. Denham: if Remington Rand signs a new contract with U.E., it does so at "its own peril." NLRB will not help to enforce it. Stormed U.E.'s Fitzgerald: "This is a call to arms to all employers to break contracts...
...somebody was General Eisenhower. Before the conversational ball had really started rolling, Ike grabbed it and hurled it right down the political alley. The nation, said Ike, needs new and dynamic leadership. It faces great peril and it will require a crusading spirit of deed and sacrifice if it is to win through...
...newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. . . . At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply [of news] is not tainted. . . . Comment is free, but facts are sacred. . . . Comment also is justly subject to a self-imposed restraint. It is well to be frank; it is even better to be fair. This is an ideal. . . . We can but try, ask pardon for shortcomings, and there leave the matter...
...Communists tried to raise a Red flag over the city hall. At that point the Reds, having completed their test run, seemed ready to take a breather and check results. The Communist-dominated labor confederation sent a letter to the Premier saying they were anxious "to avoid the peril of a civil...
...Delayed Peril. Dr. Muller has often said that physicians should go easy with X rays, to avoid "genetic deaths." Far more dangerous, obviously, is the use of atomic energy, which gives off floods of X rays (gamma rays). "When an atomic bomb . . . kills 100,000 people directly," Dr. Muller says, "enough mutations may have been implanted in the survivors . . . to cause at least as many genetic deaths . . . dispersed throughout the population over . . . thousands of years...