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Last week Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins again exercised her genius for aggravating U. S. Laborites. Her annual report to Congress so graveled A. F. of L. President William Green that he cried: "We hope an appropriate Congressional Committee will summon the Secretary of Labor . . . and wring from her the truth she has suppressed...
...finally went to "Firm A" at ?180 ($720). To newshawks Gadfly Stokes swore that he was in the room when "Firm B" received the alleged telephone call, hinted that he believed "Firm A" is a Nuffield subsidiary. In the House of Commons he shouted: "I'd like to wring the necks of the armaments firms in the ring...
...sufficiently unintelligent and sufficiently cowardly, merely sit still and deplore it all (the war). We may wring our hands and express our deep regret that such things as these could still happen in our modern world. Nevertheless, the question presses for answer--What are we going to do about...
...shortage tales which have come out of the U. S. S. R., one which came last week was most calculated to wring the hearts of Old Russians. The Moscow bimonthly Bolshevik reported a shortage not of shoes, not of black bread or tractors or clothes, not of roofs to sleep under-but of samovars. There is only one shop in all Moscow, said the Bolshevik, which will make, resurface or solder samovars. So busy are that shop's tinkers that they can accept orders only for 150 on the 13th day of each month...
...Gandhi" for his passive resistance campaigns, has led runs on Serb banks, organized farmers' strikes and riots to hamstring the Government. Though nominally exponents of peasant-democ racy, in recent years some Croats began to drop hints that an approach to Germany might be the only way to wring concessions from the Serb Government. Such hints reminded the Yugoslav Government all too vividly of the actions last March of the Slovaks, who finally appealed to Führer Hitler to "save" their country from the Czechs...