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Reception, Whatever the phrase "industrial democracy" may mean, it is the heart of the President's recovery program. As embodied in the NRA, "industrial democracy" no longer terrifies U. S. businessmen. General Johnson's bark has been found to be worse than his bite. Last week William S. Knudsen, executive vice president of General Motors, was happy to say: "General Motors Corp., with the rest of the industry , supports our President's recovery program to the fullest extent. . . . This is final, official and without reservations...
...raise such a dust we are out of sight; So Old Man Wolf will never get a bite of Two too tough old hens...
...Douglas D. H. March, a tall, curly-haired, young snake collector from Haddon Heights, N. J., had been bitten 14 times by nine varieties of poisonous snake-fer-de-lance. moccasin, copperhead, palm viper. Godman's viper and four subspecies of rattlesnake. Doctors told him that one more bite would probably be the last. Mused he: "I like to say that I am through handling snakes forever, but I know I'm not." Last week Snakeman March emerged unbitten from the jungles of Panama's Darien district proudly bearing to his new serpentarium in Old Panama City...
...prospective chemical baby sleeps in death. We are consoled by the thought that there is no fault on our part. We did all we could and lost." C. To the attempt to discover whether mosquitoes were the carriers of the St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) epidemic by letting them bite ten short-term convicts' in Jackson, Miss.: pardons from Mississippi's Governor Martin Sennett ("Sure Mike") Conner for two of the volunteers, suspended sentences for the rest...
...hand, has pursued a course of aggression and opportunism ever since Hay's Open Door policy gave her an opening wedge. With China bound to her by the infamous twenty-one demands, she tried in 1918 to gobble up Siberia, but found herself incapable of digesting such a large bite and was forced to disgorge. Inflamed by a frenzied economic nationalism, Japan apparently now considers herself able to swallow the morsel that stuck in her gullet fifteen years...