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Caught cold by this counterstroke, Canada's Finance Minister Donald Fleming could only cite the "formidable difficulties" in the way of Thorneycroft's plan. Spokesmen for Canada's automobile, textile and electrical-appliance industries quickly and hotly seconded him. Fleming thereupon hastened to spell out far more specifically than ever before what his government had in mind in making the original proposal for a 15% shift. Canada, he said, would switch all possible government purchasing from the U.S. to the U.K., would send a high-level trade delegation to Britain, and would consider lowering barriers against purchases...
HUERA representatives cite the satisfactory settlements reached in the past as evidence of the effectiveness of their elected negotiators. They claim to have followed a reasonable and responsible course, and have been able to avoid recourse to state arbitration. "We go round and round until we come to an agreement, but we've never had to call in outside help," John L. Standring, treasurer of the HUERA, says. "But we reserve the right to challenge the bosses," he adds...
Both faculty members refused to divulge the names of their former party associates, however, and McCarthy warned them that he would request the Senate to cite them for contempt, which it did. The two were found innocent...
This means that several programs, which Wilson would probably cite as "draft-dodging" techniques, will go out of existence on the first of next month. These programs require no active duty, but merely from 6 to 11 years of ready reserve depending upon the program chosen. The ready reserve involves weekly two-hour drill sessions forty-eight times during the year (actually this can be lowered to a minimum of 42 times a year) and two weeks each summer at a training camp...
...Washington, Senate rackets investigators were proceeding with their own schedules. To show that he means business in the weeks ahead, Arkansas' John McClellan got his Government Operations Committee to cite for contempt four Teamster officers who had refused to testify about the union's financial affairs on the ground that the subcommittee was without jurisdiction. Among those cited: Einar O. Mohn, Beck's personal assistant, and Seattle's Frank W. Brewster, chairman of the Teamsters Western conference, which the subcommittee charged with coughing up $8,826.98 to pay some of Beck's personal bills...