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...keep out of the press-has come in a long internecine war between the New-Dealers and the businessmen $1-a-yearlings. The New Dealers had some basic beliefs: that social gains must be preserved, that all present production was inadequate, that shortsighted industrialists had carried on a sit-down strike that, if continued, would bring the U. S. to a ruin like France's, or at least to a brink like Britain's. They pointed to Passamaquoddy's untimely death at the hands of economy, when now every kilowatt of possible power...
Result : a row. Asked about it, Mr. Roosevelt was reminded of the time (1937) when he was asked whether the General Motors sit-down strike in Flint was illegal...
Democrats feared a sit-down strike by political-minded industrialists; Republicans feared edicts from a political-minded President. Upshot of concern over the spread and depth of these fears was a public meeting at New York's Carnegie Hall, staged by the non-partisan Council for Democracy. In stage-Lincoln voice, Actor Raymond Massey read a unity plea by Poet Stephen Vincent Benet. Unity speeches were made by Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, Selective Service Director Clarence A. Dykstra, Columnist Dorothy Thompson, Labor Leader George M. Harrison, Industrialist Howard Coonley, Newscaster Raymond Gram Swing, Citizen Alfred Mossman Landon...
...sisters, his starving neighbors in their little grey houses. Love interest is Ned's tenderness for Milldy, a mute Ozark urchin. After a raid on the general store, in which Pop Fulton is shot, angry Ned leads the gaunt, drought-mad farmers to the county seat for a sit-down demonstration demanding Federal relief. Upshot is a wild battle between "Red"-fearing townsfolk and desperate rustics. Dozens of both are killed when a building collapses, leaving Ned in a hospital to wonder if sister Wilhelmina will carry on, readers to wonder whether Author Rothermell's gory climax...
Lowell House will have two non-resid- ent members: Boyd T. Simmons and Harry T. Montogomery. Simmons, who was once a mechanic in an automobile factory during a sit-down strike, has covered most of the major Michigan automobile labor disputes for the Detroit News. Montgomery is a cable news editor of the Associated Press in New York