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...Ernest Gruening, able director of the Department of the Interior's Division of Territories & Island Possessions, thought he had struck a truce with San Juan's Bishop Edwin Vincent Byrne, opened up 15 birth control stations. The Bishop's roars soon drove him to cover. Last week Bishop Byrne was roaring again because both houses of Puerto Rico's Legislature had just passed a bill permitting physicians to tell their patients about birth control. Governor Blanton Winship's predecessor, Catholic Robert H. Gore, began his term by announcing that he trusted in God to control...
Getting circulation by giving away books is one of publishing's oldest tricks. Three years ago a premium war in England (TIME, Sept. 25. 1933) threatened to ruin London's four biggest dailies"the Express, Herald, and Mail and News Chronicle- until a truce was struck. The current rebirth of the idea among U. S. newspapers was no accident. Two years ago Publisher David Stern revived it with success for his New York Post and Philadelphia Record...
...labor movement. It took Martin & Frankensteen twelve hours of driving, explaining, arguing, but finally, with bands playing and flags flying, out they all marched from the Dodge, De Soto and seven other Chrysler plants. And in marched State troopers to guard Chrysler Corp.'s property until the truce should produce a treaty...
About 3 a. m. he emerged from a 16-hour conference and announced not peace but at least truce. Terms: the union agreed to General Motors' demand for the evacuation of sit-downers from five plants, two in Flint, two in Detroit, one in Anderson, Ind. General Motors agreed to the union's demand that it would not resume operations in these plants nor remove dies, tools, machines or materials (except for the export trade) during peace negotiations, which should meanwhile begin...
Yesterday's break up in the automobile strike truce shows quite clearly, that it is the public which is being sat down on. Like a referee in a wrestling match the masses of the people are kicked while the fighters grapple at each other, a situation which may last three months as did the maritime disorders. Martin and Knudsen have climbed out to the end of their respective limbs, for in justice's sake General Motors cannot recognize the United Automobile Workers as the sole voice for its employees, nor dare labor, egged on by John Lewis and the C.I.O...