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...fact-finding boards, though still without authority to subpoena company books, now had orders to make and publish their own estimates of the employers' ability to pay, and to use these estimates in recommending wage increases. Whether the companies opened their books or not, the estimates would be made...
...Labor Disputes Act, which has worked successfully to stave off labor trouble on the railroads for 19 years. It called for the establishment of a fact-finding commission-probably three members-who would investigate any major strike on the President's orders. The commission would have power to subpoena all books and records; it would report directly to the President...
...Klan, which he helped revive in 1915 and goaded on to a monstrous 4,000,000 membership before he was bought out (for $90,000) in 1923 by Klansman Hiram Davis ; after long illness ; in Atlanta. Wizard Simmons could soft-talk away blood-&-thunder at the drop of a subpoena. He once testified at a Congressional investigation: "Our mask and robe, I say before God, are as innocent as the breath of an angel...
...Pittsburgh's OPA had never used its subpoena power to go after a single Pitts burgh black marketeer.) Said the Post-Gazette's Sprigle: we will report the story "in our own way and in our own good time. I shall tell you nothing...
...schools often meant sending them farther from home than before. Some 10,000 families sabotaged his plan by organizing mass hookey. Indignation meetings sent delegations buzzing to Johnson from all sections of the city. When his back doorstep was blown up, he had been ducking an Illinois Superior Court subpoena for two days...