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...Chicago, white-haired U.S. District Judge Philip Leo Sullivan turned from his lawbooks to his dictionaries, solemnly pondered the meaning of two words;-"production" and "distribution." Then, reluctantly, he handed the U.S. Government's labor policy a resounding judicial slap. President Roosevelt, he decided last week, had no power to seize the plants and facilities of Sewell Avery's Montgomery Ward & Co. (TIME...
...dictator did not think that political parties were necessary ingredients. Snorted La Nación, Buenos Aires' ponderous liberal daily: "Democracy without parties is inconceivable." Into the flashing Morinigo teeth it tossed Lord Bryce's well-known definition.* The blast was obviously intended as an indirect slap at Argentina's own intolerant military regime...
...step off into peace on the wrong foot if it throws off every control over wages, prices, etc. as soon as "a moment arrives when it is not pressingly needed." Instead, said he, controls should be lifted on a conditional and piecemeal basis and should be kept ready to slap on again if needed...
...manifesto was also a slap at Argentina, for Morínigo and the soldier politicians around him were a smudged carbon copy of Argentina's military Government. Unidad National, Argentine underground newspaper, claimed that Vice President Juan Domingo Perón had made a secret agreement with Paraguay's militarists, looking toward a "total customs union" with Argentina. The manifesto was a hint that the Paraguayan people might have something to say about that. The move would reduce Paraguay to an Argentine dependency, tend to bolster her unpopular military government...
...Slap for Slap. Fortunately for Emily, the Japs greatly respected Major Boxer's record of wily diplomacy: "Everybody say British bad, Boxer okay, girl friend okay," they told Emily. But Emily remained her unpredictable self. She gave Jap officials English lessons in return for food, even went to dinner with them ("People [in New York] raise their eyebrows at this attitude, but nobody in occupied territory would. I wish you could have a month of Japanese-occupied Hong Kong"). Once she got tipsy, slapped the Jap Chief of Intelligence in the face. He came...