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Foreign Relations. Though powerless to act on them. State Legislatures may talk about foreign affairs. Most feared man in the dairy-conscious Wisconsin Legislature is greying, voluble John E. Cashman, 79, who is against smoking, drinking, oleomargarine and foreigners. Two years ago he lambasted England as imperialistic, fought hard for U.S. isolation. Last week he asked his colleagues to memorialize Congress not to send butter-at least not good Wisconsin butter-to America's Allies, especially Russia. On second thought, he agreed that his hated oleomargarine would be all right for Russia...
Though Mr. Justice Humphreys said the Court was powerless to make Sir John Anderson pay damages, he warned: "If any case is brought before me hereafter in which any person-I care not how high his position or how great his name-be found to have interfered with the rights of one of His Majesty's subjects, I think I should have no difficulty in putting into force . . . the great powers of this King's Bench Division of imprisoning such a person for contempt of Court...
Said an official of the War Labor Board, powerless to end the intra-union dispute: "It is very strange the miners have refused to follow the order and counsel of Mr. Lewis." To the people of Eastern U.S., the strike was not only strange, it looked like sabotage. But to the men who worked in the hard-coal shafts, it was neither. It was a strike not against the mine operators or the public but against a union despot...
...fulfill pre-arranged schedules or else take four days off, the union at once objected. Moreover, the very strength of some unions has created a well-recognized twilight zone of authority within plants: the foreman seldom dares discharge a man; the union's "shop steward" is himself powerless to discipline a worker because his own job is dependent on his popularity...
...some who began to wonder whether U.S. policy had really paid off. This week came news that Dakar had been opened to Allied forces. But although some French troops were fighting with the Americans, there was no record of Darlan having ordered them to do so. He had been powerless to bring the French fleet at Toulon to the side of the Allies. If he succeed in establishing himself as leader of the French, would post-war France be governed by the officers' clique and her "200 families...