Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...reply to the State Department's demand for a formal apology, promise of indemnity and "satisfactory guarantees" that the episode would not be repeated. At week's end the formal apology finally arrived-just in time to be published in the U. S. simultaneously with a complete report of the bombing by the Panay's Lieutenant Commander J. J. Hughes and the findings of a naval court of inquiry which had been sifting eyewitness accounts of the affair at Shanghai...
...neither Commander Hughes's report nor that of the naval court-both of which called attention to the unmistakable deliberateness of the attack-was there any indication that the bombing of the Panay was a mistake of the sort which Minister Hirota seemed to imply. Nonetheless, since the Japanese apology fulfilled all the demands made by the U. S., Secretary Hull quickly accepted it, merely calling attention to this difference of opinion in his reply. The State Department's note presumably closed the incident but made it apparent that a repetition might be much less easy to explain...
Last week the background, if not the detail, of this horrendous story was confirmed by a report of Senator Robert M. La Follette's Civil Liberties Committee. From nine volumes of testimony on labor espionage elicited in the Committee's hearings last year, Senator La Follette concluded that it was a "common, almost universal practice in American industry. . . . Large corporations rely on spies. No firm is too small to employ them. The habit has even infected the labor relations of non-commercial philanthropic organizations [like hospitals...
Intended as it was to be a primer on the profession, Senator La Follette appended to the report a glossary of such technical terms as "fink" (strikebreaker), "noble" (commander of a strikebreaking squad), "missionary" (spreader of anti-union propaganda, especially among workers' wives), "hooker" (spies who tempt workers to become spies). But the report's dynamite was a list of some 2,500 U. S. companies found as clients of detective agencies. "The list, as a whole," the report observed, "reads like a bluebook of American industry...
Reaction of Ford Personnel Head Harry Bennett to the Board's report was instantaneous: "The N. L. R. B. decision sounds like a page out of the United Automobile Worker [union newspaper]. It's not only offensive but ridiculous. Only the employes who work for the Ford Motor Co. can know how ridiculous it is." On the Board's order to reinstate 29 workers with back pay, the Bennett comment was: "They'll have an awful fight over that one. We won't take those men back." On the Board's order to post...