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Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was the little brown bandit who ruled the Dominican Republic as President from 1930 to 1938. He then refused a third term "following United States precedent" and now rules instead as generalissimo of the army. He was much put out this past year as he watched the parade of other Latin-American strongmen to Washington: Cuba's Batista, Nicaragua's Somoza, Brazil's Aranha and Monteiro (TIME, Nov. 14, et seq.). All these received official invitations, were saluted, handshaken, welcomed at the White House. But for Dictator Trujillo, no invitation came...
Beneath the Capitol's rotunda is a book-lined lair where, 21 years ago, California's Senator Hiram Warren Johnson, then a vigorous ex-Governor and ex-candidate on the Bull Moose ticket of 1912, put his name up on the door without a by-your-leave to anyone. That has been his office all these years, while other Senators shuttle to & from the palatial marble Senate Office Building. One day last week more than a score of Senators took their way to Senator Johnson's lair to join in drafting a manifesto that constituted the gravest...
Brunt of the battle fell, of course, upon A. F. of L.'s President William Green, who had failed to act when the bill was before Congress. He now called a meeting in Washington of all his union presidents to put on belated heat. Cried he: "A vital principle is at stake. The wage standards of organized labor, built up through years of sacrifice, suffering and collective bargaining, are threatened . . . strikes and strikes...
...invisible subsidy of the New Deal has been enjoyed by the legal profession. No one knows this better than Lawyer Robert Houghwout Jackson, now Solicitor General. Painfully consistent in his New Dealism was he last week when, addressing the Junior Bar Conference (lawyers under 36) at San Francisco, he put his profession on notice as follows...
...This first general Neutrality act was hastily patched up and put into effect for six months until a permanent act could be written. Its chief provision was to place a mandatory embargo on the shipment to warring countries of "arms, ammunition and implements of war," (which were later defined by the President to include airplanes, various chemicals, armored vehicles but not cotton, oil, scrap iron, trucks, etc.). It also forbade U. S. citizens to travel on vessels of warring nations except at their own risk...