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...bombings continued. Rightist planes bombed Valencia, killed 125 people including Arnold Crone, captain of a British freighter loading oranges in the harbor. In retaliation, Leftist planes again bombed Salamanca, Valladolid, Talavera. To end this senseless waste of good munitions and useless murder of civilians the Leftist Government proposed a truce on the bombing of any objective not in the area of combat by planes of either side...
...present state of industrial relations without question. Herein the University is discovered to be hiding from its right hand what its left hand is doing. Over and over in History, Government, and Economics is taught the importance of the labor problem and the unsatisfactoriness of the present armed truce between labor and capital in this country. It is good that professors debate what wages ought to be paid and how labor ought to be handled; but more effective than the words is the fact, more valuable than the preaching is the practice. In research, in education, and in diffusion...
Fact was that, in spite of his vague offers of truce and invitations to Messrs. Carlisle & Willkie, so far President Roosevelt had not even hinted a willingness to compromise his power policies on any ground acceptable to private powermen. And in the opinion of Washington ob- servers he was not likely to compromise unless Recession grew even blacker. The pressure from the Right wing of the Administration was heavy but his advisers on the Left wing urged him to hold out until after the major legal tests of the power program are decided. The Duke Power case (PWA grants...
...this point President Roosevelt waved the white flag of truce in the War Against the Utilities (see col. 3). With utility shares in the van, prices once more turned upward. American Water Works jumped to $15.50, up $3; Electric Power & Light to $14.25, up $2; Columbia Gas & Electric to $10.50, up $2; North American to $23.50, up $3.50. Industrial and railroad issues tagged along, U. S. Steel bouncing hastily back from a new low of $51 to $60.50. At week's end the Dow-Jones industrial average was back to 133 and Wall Streeters, eyeing Washington with something like...
...While many are talking of a Rebel victory others speak of a 'truce...