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Because Roman Catholics believe that theirs is the one & only True Church, they are discouraged from attending heretical or schismatic religious services-i.e., any but their own. Many Roman bishops restrain their priests, and refrain themselves, from joining interfaith gatherings, where their presence might seem to condone the heresy that one religion is as good as another. In the U. S. last year, Archbishop John Gregory Murray of St. Paul made an exception to this rule, when he preached a sermon at a men's rally promoted by an Episcopalian. In New Haven, Conn, last Sunday night...
...Boyle denied) that the hotel had refused to let him live there; others, that a dispute over recognition of his electrical union got his dander up. Tough "Umbrella Mike"*knows much about the dark & bloody side of Chicago unionism, twice went to jail (for contempt of court, conspiracy to restrain trade). He was also tough enough to call out Edgewater Beach electricians, declare a strike. Allied with the electricians were waiters, cooks, busboys, et al., who joined Mike Boyle's picket line on April...
Thus ended the six-week trial of General Motors, accused of conspiring to restrain interstate commerce by forcing its dealers to specify that all the cars they sell on installments be financed through General Motors Acceptance Corp. The jury's strange verdict seemed to say that there had been a conspiracy without conspirators. But no seer was needed to guess at the jury's real meaning: that the men accused were no criminals, but the practice had better be stopped...
...also go to war. Despite a great Anglo-French outcry of resonant warnings that further aggression would be met "by force", the Nazis believed that when the showdown came Britain and France, as they did last summer over Czecho-Slovakia, would not only back down but would try to restrain Poland from resisting...
...members by notably aggressive "defense," Mr. Lewis announced last week that unpeaceful C. I. O. hereafter will carry its war to the enemy, which claims 3,600,000 members. First example of his new tactics followed forthwith. In Manhattan Mr. Carey's union sued for an injunction to restrain A. F. of L. from boycotting (refusing to install or handle) electrical products made by C. I. O. workers. Thus Labor, by requesting an injunction, turned upon itself a favorite weapon of anti-union employers...