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...radical element in U.A.W. was to be let alone. Communists in North American Aviation Corp., who two months before had engineered a wildcat strike (TIME, June 16) and defied U.A.W. and C.I.O. leaders, and whom the Reuther group wanted to hang and quarter, were to be given a thoroughgoing slap on the wrist. The whole program was to be labeled "harmony...
This finding was a sharp slap at the Army's Quartermaster General Edmund B. Gregory and his corps. Sharper still was the committee's chief recommendation: that Army construction be taken entirely away from the Quartermasters, and that camp maintenance and construction be transferred to a new and separate organization of qualified specialists...
Four of the attackers did not return, but two of the four had hit their targets before they were brought down. Pilots' reports were uniformly certain: slap-bang in the middle . . . colossal explosion, followed by flames and smoke . . . enveloped in black smoke...
Franklin Roosevelt's choice was easy compared to Philip Murray's. With labor misbehaving, the President's method of slapping it down was to seize the plant of the employer. C.I.O. President Philip Murray could not slap anyone except his own followers. Since he took office he has been harassed by Communists, who became entrenched in C.I.O. ranks under the more tolerant leadership of John L. Lewis. A practical Catholic, Murray has no love for Reds. C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers, which took over aircraft organizing, has been particularly plagued with them...
Most vehemently opposed to the bill were House Republicans.- Missouri's Dewey Short attacked the measure as "just another slap in the face and kick in the pants to the Axis," which was just as brash, said Short, as if he himself stepped into the ring with Joe Louis. Republicans trying to hobble the bill with an amendment which would prevent the President from transferring German and Italian ships to the British, cheered to the roof mention of Lindbergh...