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Meeting in closed sessions, the conference soon got down to business. Then the C.I.O. delegation went into a huddle with John L. Lewis, emerging to slap down a three-point peace proposal...
...slap in the face to the C. I. O.-hating Premier came unexpectedly from Windsor and Toronto where David A. Croll and Arthur W. Roebuck, former Hepburn cabinet members who split with "Mitch" on the C. I. O. stand, were returned with large majorities...
...three acts of solid suspense, piffling but none the loss deadly, John Murray and Allen Boretz's "Room Service" surpasses the most lugubrious of tragedies. In fact, although it is farcical throughout and even borders on the slap-stick, it threatens more than once to drop off into sheer disaster. It has to do with the now familiar theme of putting on a show, but the hopelessness of the predicaments into which the youthful producer breezes is amazingly original. Those dilemmas are also uproarious, except that there is grave danger lest the sympathetic souls in the audience become too busy...
Meantime the Soviet Union signed a treaty with China promising that neither would aid an enemy attacking the other. Though this did not commit the Soviet to sending help to China it was a slap in Japan's eye and Japan could not but suspect "secret clauses" which might eventually bring Russia into the war. Entirely bloodless but saddest incident of the week for Japan was the announcement that since the war began she has had to export over $65,000,000 worth of gold. This brought her slender gold reserve down to a still slenderer...
...outdone in the slap-the-Administration game, 79-year-old Edward Thomas Taylor's Appropriations Committee presented to the House a third deficiency bill which: 1) knocked out the $20,000,000 Farm Tenancy program: 2) cut the Labor Relations Board's request for $1,800,000 in half; 3) denied the Agriculture Department $500,000 for the Great Plains shelterbelt tree plantings; 4) disapproved an additional $10,000.000 which Chairman Joseph P. Kennedy was seeking for his Maritime Commission. Total intended economies: about 30% of Budget Bureau estimates...