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...Herr Hitler dispatched to Signor Benito Mussolini a message assuring him that the German people would "stand shoulder to shoulder with the battle-proved Italian nation in defense against all hateful and incomprehensible attempts to restrict the justified will for living of our two peoples...
Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold fortnight ago intimated that the Government was likely to restrict advertising on the ground that it sometimes fostered monopoly (TIME, Nov. 21). Last week he backed down. Obviously embarrassed by the sensation which his comments on advertising caused, Trust Buster Arnold wrote Advertising & Selling that it was all a misunderstanding, that regulation of advertising was the job of industry, not of the Department of Justice...
Labor, its rights and wrongs, a lively campaign issue in most States, fared well with voters. A.F. of L. and C.I.O. combined to stave off drastic anti-picketing ordinances in California. Oregon. Washington. But Oregon approved a milder initiative proposal to outlaw picketing in jurisdictional disputes, restrict secondary boycotts, regulate union expenditures...
...year nothing more would be done on the Council's resolution. Governor Hurley has called a special session of the Legislature to deal with the hurricane emergency but no action will be taken at this time as the legislators have agreed among themselves to keep the session short and restrict it to legislation directly concerned with the hurricane and flood. A member of the Cambridge Council said that if did reach the Legislature in January the "Harvard City" resolution would not have a prayer of passing...
...councilmen recommended that the law be amended so as "to curtail the unlawful assumption of broad powers by the board, also to curtail unlimited discretion in construing and administering the Act, and to make specific the jurisdictional limits of the Board." Specifically: to restrict or abolish NLRB's power to void contracts between employers and unions, require NLRB to recognize craft lines in designating bargaining units, forbid it to sanction independent or "company" unions, reduce its quasi-judicial powers...