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Early in the week President Roosevelt called Governor Murphy on the telephone, authorized him to summon the war's opposing generals to a council table in the name of the President of the U. S. Under that pressure, General Motors abandoned its stubborn refusal to negotiate with the strike leaders until they had yielded up its captive plants. Twice had President Sloan rejected similar summonses by Secretary of Labor Perkins, but Executive Vice President Knudsen now wrote to Governor Murphy: "The wish of the President of the United States leaves no alternative except compliance...
...friendly chatting of Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast strike leader, and Roger D. Lapham, president of American-Hawaiian Steamship Co., as they waited their turns to debate the strike in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium before a capacity audience of 15,000 (see cut). Characteristic of the stubborn determination which has made the strike a clash of irresistible v. immovable was each debater's proclamation that his side would never yield on the strike's crucial issue-control of hiring halls. So amiable was President Lapham, a onetime Harvard debater, that Australian-born Harry Bridges later wrote...
...odds with his brain-trust associates in 1933 was AAAdministrator George Nelson Peek that he rejected the services of AAA Counsel Jerome Frank, hired a Washington lawyer as his personal attorney, paid him $4,603 salary out of his own pocket. Eventually leaving the New Deal's service, stubborn Mr. Peek removed himself completely from its good graces when he plumped for Alf Landon (TIME, Oct. 12). Last week, when he petitioned the Board of Tax Appeals for redress, it was revealed that the Bureau of Internal Revenue, rejecting piqued Mr. Peek's claim that his lawyer...
...abundance of ethical, proprietary or quack liniments also sold in drugstores to arthritics "is of no greater therapeutic value than would be a hot, wet towel to the afflicted joint." In contrast, conscientious doctors have some three dozen different drugs, four liniments to treat one of the three most stubborn, chronic U. S. diseases...
...Book-of-the-Month Club, Pearl Buck gets around to giving her father his innings. If The Exile is a labor of love, Fighting Angel is a labor of filial justice. It gives less evidence of Pearl Buck's understanding of her father than of her stubborn attempt to understand...