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...AMERICAN week was staged (without government sanction) in Switzerland by 3,000 watchmakers as a protest against the U.S. boost in watch tariffs. Some shopkeepers refused to sell American cigarettes, nylons or Coca-Cola...
...judge it opportune to demand in the name of Islam and of the Moroccan people the return of their legal sovereign, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, to the throne." Then, in secrecy, the priests reached another decision. Suicide is a deadly sin in Moslem theology, but the conclave decided to sanction the use of cyanide capsules by any Moroccan patriot who might be captured by the French...
...actions . . . have fallen below the best journalistic standards . . . The Council gives its complete support to the principle that a critic has the right to insist that where his name is to be published with an article, no alterations [apart from normal copy editing] should be made without the sanction of the critic . . ." This time Editor Gunn manfully printed the criticism in his paper -without changing a word...
McCarthy charged that Hensel, while a Navy lawyer and then the Assistant Secretary, drew $56,526.64 in wartime profits from a "ships' supply firm which was operating with Government sanction and with Government priorities." Hensel answered with the hottest blast against McCarthy by any Administration official to date, calling the charges "barefaced lies." As an inactive partner of a firm doing business with private steamship companies, not the Government. Hensel declared that he had done nothing illegal or unethical. McCarthy, he said, "is cornered and is attempting a diversionary move...
This week some Pittsburghers thought they detected a glimmer of hope. It looked as if Dave Beck himself might intercede. Beck, who prides himself on running his union like a big business (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), did not sanction the Pittsburgh walkout and has refused benefits to the strikers. Officially, he said only that he would move in "at the right time," and colleagues said the dispute was not the kind of strike Beck thought served the cause of labor. Said Teamster Beck: "I refused to sanction the strike before it started, and I don't condone it any more...