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Under Congress' present price law, OPA cannot extend its ceiling over wages, most current farm prices or rents except in defense areas. But once all nonagricultural prices are roofed over, adding porch roofs will be easier. Then labor will lose a huge lever to pry up raises; desk farmers will lose a big excuse for boosting wheat and corn prices; landlords will have a hard time justifying higher rents...
...donned an ill-fitting suit and high stiff collar, breakfasted lightly at 8, then spent several hours conferring with his staff, writing dispatches, seeing the press. Except for a 25-minute break for lunch, he interviewed Indian leaders from midmorning until 8 p.m. He met them on the porch, led them through the large-pillared hall to his study, offered them cigarets and then got down to business. After dinner and more staff talks, he called on the Viceroy, the Marquess of Linlithgow...
...back to report that he had so much domestic trouble he preferred jail. He was readmitted. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Anthony Tesco went free after serving a jail term for assaulting his brother-in-law, went to his mother-in-law's house and knocked her off the back porch...
...trucks full of furniture stopped just short of the deadline. Negroes gathered on the west side of Ryan Rd., scowling. Tempers mounted. A Negro armed with a shotgun stamped out on his front porch and exhorted his colleagues to march through. A news photographer tried to take his picture, but another Negro smacked him down in the snow. Young Negroes cracked up concrete blocks into pieces of nice throwing size. Bricks felled a cop, hit a white woman. Negroes tried to drive one truck through the line. The white men swarmed forward. Mounted cops had to use tear...
...Annie doesn't like the soldiers on the back porch. . . . They are looking through the window at Annie. She hates that." "They are doing no harm," said the Colonel. "Well, Annie hates to be stared at." Soon "from the doorway came the sound of an angry woman's voice and a thump and a man's cry." The butler scuttled...