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...stepped balding Director Roger N. Baldwin of the Civil Liberties Union, staunch defender of labor's rights, to give labor a stern warning. Unions, he said, must stop abusing the right to picket by such tactics as the use of force and mass picketing which deny the right of management, maintenance crews and office workers to enter struck plants...
...Foreign Minister, said Dr. Adrogue (even before President Edelmiro Farrell could threaten him with libel charges), wouldn't let the vigilance board liquidate the potent firms (estimated value: $24,000,000) of Nazi Agent Ricardo Staudt, onetime officer in the Elite Prussian Guard. Asked Buenos Aires' staunch, prodding La Vanguardia: "Is this favoritism on the part of Sr. Cooke due to the fact that Sr. Staudt ... is the principal financier of the [Perón for President] campaign...
Secretary Byrnes displayed staunch faith in MacArthur. According to obviously inspired dispatches from his headquarters, MacArthur was ready to step out if a really controlling control council should move in on Tokyo. No such thing being yet in sight, he calmly continued the ordeal which Japan must undergo before she can re-enter the comity of nations...
...captain in Georgia wrote: "My wife being a staunch Southern Baptist and I a Presbyterian . . . can we get into religious work which involves no denomination...
...Bird." The man Zamperini will never forget was Sergeant Watanabe, who made prisoners do "pushups" over latrine troughs until they collapsed with their faces in the excrement, who beat Zamperini on the head until he bled, gave him bits of paper to staunch the wounds and when the blood stopped, said "Oh, it stop, eh?" and beat him again. Watanabe had a head like a frog's. The prisoners called him "The Bird...