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...heard about the private bathroom in blue marble in Mr. Ickes' office," snorted Joe Bailey, "but I've never seen it and I wouldn't go so far as to say that Mr. Ickes takes a bath." With an angry gesture he raised his arm and wham, flung the book to the floor. In a twinkling, Oklahoma Democrat Elmer Thomas scrambled over to pick it up, lay it gently on a desk. At this point tobacco-chewing Cotton Ed Smith, who had no doubt been restrained by his colleagues from giving his standard anti-lynching argument on behalf of Southern...
...were convicted in a Federal court in Springfield, Ill. of conspiracy to interfere with the mails and interstate commerce by dynamiting trains (TIME, Dec. 27). Last week another case originating on that dark and bloody ground was decided in East St. Louis, Ill. by Federal District Judge Fred L. Wham. In a damage suit brought against the Progressive Miners by United Electric Coal Co. for losses sustained from a three-year shutdown of its Red Ray mine, Judge Wham whammed down an award of $117,000. Seven Progressive locals and 66 union members were ordered...
...opinion which will probably be appealed, Judge Wham drew a line between the unquestioned right to strike and a conspiracy "to prevent production." Labor, he said, was not liable for damages caused by a strike itself, even if an "employer may have to quit business"; but Labor was responsible for damages inflicted by "violent and other unlawful conduct." This liability was not confined to physical damage but included the use of "unlawful means" to prevent a company "from conducting its business...
Only consolation to be found by labor lawyers in the Wham decision was the possibility that it would demonstrate that no new legislation was needed to make unions financially responsible. The damages assessed recalled the historic Danbury Hatters case, which was fought through the courts for twelve years before it was passed upon by the Supreme Court in 1915. The hatters' union declared a nation-wide boycott on hats of an open-shop Danbury hat manufacturer, the late Dietrich E. Loewe. Hat-Maker Loewe then founded the American Anti-Boycott Association, sued the union, won a judgment...
...moments later, in rather a bloody and dirty mess. In relating this incident afterwards-it seems that we must all tell of our operations and accidents-I have stated that there is only one word that can describe the sensation and that was one from the comic strip, namely: "WHAM...