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...early 19th century to make way for the railroads and a leading case in which a trust was declared illegal because it carried "a serious threat against the proper growth and development of the parts of the city" in which the lands in question were located. The rule of thumb has been to favor private remedies in the sense of freely-arrived at contracts or grants of public power as long as these have been economically progressive and not too perturbing to the body politic. Only in dire cases is there recourse to quasi-public regulatory bodies like the administrative...
...This year the number is 2.8 million, and negotiations are in such noncritical areas as apparel, retail trade and transportation equipment. The major imponderable now is the reaction of Harry Bridges' West Coast dock workers, who have yet to approve or reject the Pay Board settlement. If they thumb it down, a real crisis could follow, and the Administration would have to go to Congress for new strike-restraining legislation to keep the wharves open...
...Under my thumb, it's all right...
Analytical pieces, the so-called "thumb-suckers," were simply too risky to try on the basis of what was available. Even such an event as the two-page, seven-picture spread on the presidential visit in Peking's People's Daily, described by resident correspondents as "unprecedented," proved an enigma. The Washington Post's Stanley Karnow thought the display was "calculated to communicate to the Chinese population the advent of a new era in Sino-American relations." But A.P. Correspondent Frank Cormier cautioned that it might be aimed mainly at irritating the Russians...
...before, most recently a proposed 40-story U.S. Steel building on the waterfront. They are now rousing themselves to oppose the antenna, most particularly a group of local law students who are trying to halt the construction in court. In their poignant description, the mast will be "a giant thumb in the eye of San Francisco...