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...reelection, was consistently helpful to neither side, finally enforced the dismissal of twelve key men in Local 1116, United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America. Having curried labor votes by declaring martial law and shutting down Maytag as the strikers wished, he last week twirled around, permitted Maytag to reopen on Maytag terms and under State guard. The Governor simultaneously weaseled out of his role as a States' Rights champion (TIME, Aug. 8). He amended his order forbidding NLRB to continue its Maytag inquiry anywhere in "the military district of Iowa," allowed the hearings to reopen at Des Moines...
...action." Has the situation changed? And why "impractical??" Is it too late? Last year, in writing to the Board of Overseers about the committee of inquiry, the President said, "Since the appointments of Dr. Walsh and Dr. Sweezy run for two years, there is ample time for me to reopen their casts if the committee's report warrants it." Yet now he offers not a word to refute the committee's conclusions. His only comment is to take pride in the fact that the report regard Walsh and Sweezy as "men of real ability whose services were highly valued...
...committee recommends, and he has offered none. Since one of the two instructors who received promotions has now resigned, there is a vacancy for which Drs. Walsh and Sweezy are the logical candidates. When he appointed the committee of nine, President Conant said that there was ample time to reopen the cases if the report warranted it. There is still time and the report most emphatically does justify a reopening, yet Dr. Conant seems satisfied with things as they are. Apparently the shotgun went off entirely by accident but managed, by pure chance, to shoot the right...
...earmarking $25,000 for the probe. And Texas' Representative William Doddridge McFarlane renewed in the House his ten-month-old demand for a radio monopoly investigation. He freshened up his act by charging that two unnamed former U. S. Senators had taken bribes. Mr. McFarlane wants to reopen an old antitrust suit against the Bell System and RCA and its subsidiaries. The suit was settled by 1932 amendment of the companies' wire service and radio manufacturing agreements...
Last week Fred Steiwer abruptly released himself from his pledge to remain one long year in the Senate, announced that he was resigning effective January 31 to practice law in Washington with Corporation Lawyer Kingman Brewster and reopen his own law office in Portland. With his wife, son, a daughter, little income outside his $10,000 salary, and few political prospects, Fred Steiwer explained that he could not afford to miss "an opportunity which would not wait until the end of my term of office...