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Against Tyranny. The House's avowed aim was to bring an end to "widespread industrial strife." That had also been the avowed aim of Congress in 1935, when it passed the Wagner Act. But the 80th Congress now thought that the hard facts of industrial strife had demonstrated the fallacy in congressional thinking twelve years ago. From an annual average of 753 strikes involving 297,000 workers before the NRA, precursor of the Wagner Act, the strike chart had climbed to 4,985 strikes involving 4,650,000 workers in 1946. Annual average of man-days lost before...
...about the cloakrooms, smoking and gossiping. At the appointed time they walked back in. No one wanted to say much; everyone's mind was made up. In a few minutes it was all over and David E. Lilienthal-center of the most violent controversy which had touched the 80th Congress-was confirmed as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission...
Arturo Toscanini, who had made it plain that he wanted no demonstrations, passed his 80th birthday quietly at home as he wished; but the NBC Symphony sneaked in a demonstration anyway. Delivered to his home, and played at dinner: a special recording (the Minuet from Schubert's A Minor Quartet), preceded and followed by recorded congratulations...
...glare of the public spotlight, the Republicans of the 80th Congress had moved into Washington like a lusty construction gang bent on rebuilding the town. But as yet they had neither torn down nor raised one house. Last week, above the clashing and grinding of the legislative machinery in Washington, a sharp-eared listener could hear a steady hum. It came from Albany. Governor Thomas E. Dewey was purring along like a pilot plant...
...commemorate the 50th anniversary of Brahms's death, he led his NBC Symphony Orchestra through an all-Brahms program. It was played with such precision and such cohesive beauty that listeners had a hard time believing that next week Toscanini will celebrate an anniversary of his own: his 80th birthday...