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Last week PreWi got deeply involved in union trouble. The trouble began in New York where 46 employes, a sixth of Pre-Wi's staff, were laid off in a postwar economy retrenchment. (PreWi's traffic had slumped from its wartime peak of 430,000 words a day.) The C.I.O.'s American Communications Association promptly pulled the rest out on strike. Its contention: the company should have arbitrated the layoffs in advance...
This frank pressure play against Pre-Wi's 13 stockholders* was roundly denounced as "private censorship of news" by labor's faithful friend, the American Civil Liberties Union...
Hopkins obediently buckled to the task. The big machine leaders trooped in. were told what they had to do, wryly faced around and trooped out. But now the delegates-Democrats wha hae wi' Wallace bled-were hopping mad. Eleanor Roosevelt, who had flown on to address the Convention, failed to calm them in a speech emphasizing the terrible burden of the Presidency in these times. On the floor Henry Wallace had no more than 50 personal votes. But candidate after candidate withdrew. One of them, tall ioo%er Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, purged himself...
Scrymgeour is pronoonced Skrimjer as it was when th' Heilanders defeated th' Sassan-ach at Bannockburn. aye an' at Prestonpans ferbye (an' if ye dare mention Flodden Field or Culloden, I'll slit yer throats wi' ma rusty Claymore an' feed yer misbegotten flesh tae th' Eagles...
...Indian Road (over 600,000 copies), Christ at the Round Table, The Christ of Every Road, The Christ on the Mount, Christ and Human Suffering. In 1928 the Methodist Episcopal Church elected Dr. Jones a bishop. He immediately resigned, preferring to pursue a calling which kept him in contact wi:h Brahmin Saint Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Poet Rabindranath Tagore. the Maharaja Gaekwar Sir Sayaji Rao III of Baroda...