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...join any union. He was answered that such an amendment would "weaken the bill." Labor organizing not being a parlor game, the amendment would obviously have prevented the A. F. of L. from using some of its "strongest" arguments, would have given some employers a legal pretext for interfering with the organization of their employes. Just 21 votes were mustered for the Tydings amendment, so it went to defeat. No amendment of any kind was made to the Wagner Bill from the Senate floor. Just four Democrats and eight Republicans voted against the bill when it passed...
...pretext that they constituted evidence of fraud, Counsel Jackson dragged into the first week's spotlight two sets of facts which had small bearing on the case at hand, large bearing on Mr. Mellon's reputation. One was that in 1931 Mr. Mellon had twice sold stocks short-an entirely legitimate operation except that the Secretary of the Treasury was simultaneously trying to bolster a falling securities market. Private Secretary Johnson explained that, while they were not on deposit with his broker, Mr. Mellon held more than enough shares in his portfolio to cover his short position...
...Nobody knows better than shrewd Josef Stalin that the shrewd Russian peasant is a born ironist, famed for taking cracks at his masters by sly indirection. That one of the Dictator's pet collective farms should have staged an assassination of Red by Red, no matter under what pretext, meant just one thing in Russia. Last week Pravda, newsorgan of the Party, banned any further staged assassinations, denounced Saratov's rustic thespians, demanded their instant punishment...
...their respective allies. This fact indicates no influx of evangelism into European affairs; the nations simply find war inconvenient at the present moment. Therefore the League has won a great victory. When the zest for battle is again keen, however, there is no need to doubt that a suitable pretext will be found, despite the Pax Helvitiorem...
Sissies & He-Men. Manhattan copyreaders gleefully headlined a squib from the meeting: CITY EDITORS JUST SISSIES. Their pretext was a report...