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...prepared to see that expulsion followed by others. For a big faction of the A. F. of L. Executive Council is eager to expel the now "suspended" C. I. O. unions. Indeed, Mr. Green and the rest of the A. F. of L. Executive Council were in Miami to ponder just such action. And their temper was not improved by another cavalier peace offer from John Lewis. With tongue in cheek he purred to his Mine Workers...
Except that one must ponder if the style...
...frivolous poet appends an incomprehensible commentating clause. Sentence (4) is a compression of the defects of the "Letters" at large. Sordid subjects, prevalent among social novelists are ridiculed; a digression is made on obscurity; this obscurity is commented on; and the sentence lamely concludes declaring that one must ponder whether matter or style is more vile. Artistically the word "vices" is wishful and unproven; Mr. Hillyer's couplets have not made tangible that confusion is a vice and what he actually means is: "Their only consistency is inconsistency." The word "except" is grammatically unsupported, and "consistently" is a filler elbowishly...
...review its record and ponder its future the S. W. O. C. last week held its first national convention in Pittsburgh. Since S. W. O. C. is not a union but an organizing group headed by Philip Murray, the convention was, in effect, a policy-making body made up of nearly 1,000 delegates from Amalgamated lodges. Four out of five delegates went to the convention straight from the heat of the mills. Nearly half of them were old company union men who had helped lead their organizations into C. I. O. Daily for four days they packed themselves into...
...quasi-judicial body, the ICC is accustomed to ponder its decisions long and earnestly. But established practice before any commission allows a petitioner to request an immediate emergency order after presentation of ample evidence pending a final decision. Last week the railroads resolved to take this step. Through the Association of American Railroads they asked that the ICC provide an emergency rate rise immediately to last until February when final hearings had been scheduled. The reason: many roads could not hold out two months longer...