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...terms or conditions thereof . . ."-excerpt from the licensing clause of the National Industrial Recovery Act. "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech or of the Press . . ."-1st Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. A newspaper publishers' committee marched to Washington last week to thresh out with Recovery Administrator Johnson the contradiction which, they insisted, lay between the foregoing clauses and stood" in the way of adoption of a code by newspapers. The committeemen. representing the American Newspaper Publishers' Association, were Howard Davis, plump manager of the New York Herald Tribune, Amon Giles Carter, potent...
...line this takes the form of something approximating beatification. The judgment of B. & O. employes on him is: "One square guy!" Many a road used President Willard's "B. & O. Plan" to settle the shopmen's strike of 1922. As they prepared to sit down and thresh out together the first major wage problem since 1916, workers and operators of 249,000 U. S. rail miles felt that if anyone could oil the way to a solution it was Daniel Willard...
...elimination of the "gag" rule which cuts off debate and bars floor amendments on controversial legislation; 2) power to "discharge" a committee and bring a bill to the House floor on petition of 100 members, instead of, as now, 218 members. A Republican House caucus late next month will thresh out the rules issue and renominate Congressman Longworth for the Speakership. provided Representatives whose wives feel that Mrs. Longworth has snubbed them do not have their...
...Harvest, thresh and ship a wheat crop...
...Stacpoole was not bitter about it. "There is no use," said he, "abusing ships. They are up against hard times and new conditions." But Governments could "end this terrible business," he thought; and he forthwith called for an international conference "to thresh it out." He offered no suggestions as to how the high seas might be made safe for aviculture, nor did he estimate what leagues of ocean are still unpolluted by the oily skirts of commerce