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Ever since the Republicans gained a majority on the National Labor Relations Board, they have taken small steps to limit their jurisdictional boundaries. The board, said Commissioner Philip Ray Rogers, should not poke into labor squabbles involving hot-dog stands, service stations, apartment houses. Last week the board took another big step to cut down the number of cases it handles. It waived its jurisdiction over small retail stores, utility companies, transit systems, radio and TV stations and five other types of businesses...
...capture of all Southeast Asia by Communism. They had cowed the once great French nation into a yearning for dishonorable surrender; they had spurned the outstretched hand of once mighty Britain; they had ordered the U.S. to get out of Asia and the Pacific. At Geneva they now poke rudely at the chest of the West and hope to find there the faint heart of a new Munich. They now demand a voice in the affairs of the Europe that, a generation ago, was sure that it ordered the affairs of China as surely as it ordered about its ricksha...
Rogers was expanding upon remarks made by Dean Bundy of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences which called for the graduate schools to "attract, entice, drive, pull or poke leading men and women students into the graduate schools...
...services had actually seen the wolf boy. Meanwhile, at the government hospital, the doctor-superintendent (and source of the stories) was reveling in the publicity. Amidst a swelling tide of local protest, the sick, deformed child was put in a ward where spectators saw an attendant on hand to poke him and make him howl and moan. Admission charge: 1 anna...
...sketches for De Wolfe and Miss Gingold. Occasionally bizarre, like "Dinner for One," an aged spinster's banquet for suitors dead and gone, most of these skits have considerable wit and imagination. Though the parody of "Picnic" is rather distasteful, De Wolfe takes a delightful poke at "My Cousin Rachel." Miss Gingold, however, as the dancer, "La Pistachio," provides the most entertaining moments of the revue. Garbed in an uproarious butterfly costume, the lusty old harridan is hilarious as the vamp of Paris...