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...nine proposed A. F. of L. changes in the Wagner Act. Significantly included were an amendment to curtail NLRB's power to invalidate existing contracts, another to require NLRB to give all interested parties (including unions) due notice of intention to investigate a contract. NLRB's retort (in its annual report): ". . . In most of such cases the beneficiary of the employer's illegal acts also secures a collective agreement and is naturally loath to recognize the board's duty to compel the employer to forego the fruits of his violation...
Though Mr. Smith's firm received a 67.77% return on its $2,500,000 net capital employed in 1937 operations, and though Mr. Smith admitted that it was virtually impossible for anyone to make glass bottles by the gob process without "coming to Hartford," he got in a retort, too. Chairman O'Mahoney observed, "that is a sort of AAA in milk bottles," and Witness Smith cracked back: "Not so far from it, but used intelligently...
...squabbly session of the Supreme Court, young TVA Attorney James Lawrence Fly was repeatedly bumbled at by Justice Pierce Butler, made a retort such as Supreme Court justices seldom hear: "Your Honor, the point seems perfectly clear except in Your Honor's mind...
...Britannic Majesty's Government during a closing session of the House of Lords last week, the Earl of Plymouth, Parliamentary Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs, gloomed: "Unless collaboration [by Germany] is forthcoming, this problem-already a difficult one-may possibly be rendered quite insoluble." Jewish supporters were quick to retort that even penniless Jews would prove a benefit to any nation...
Three days later Mrs. Roosevelt was in Boston to tell the sociologist alumnae of Simmons College about the "Problems of Youth," to whom "after all, divorce isn't a problem. All they want to do is get married." Baited for a retort to Mrs. Feehan, tactful Mrs. Roosevelt replied: "Everyone has a right to his opinions, and to say them...