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...beginning to run stronger & stronger against the surging Sit-Down. Governors White of Mississippi, worried about a pajama factory sitdown, and Allred of Texas, worried about the C. I. O. oil drive starting this week, announced that they would oppose Sit-Downs with all the force at their command. With many a State legislature discussing the subject, Vermont's became the first to pass a law specifically outlawing the Sit-Down-which it defined as occupation of property by three or more persons without the owner's consent...
...from San Francisco climbed a brand new Sikorsky S-42B flying boat named the Pan American Clipper after the sister ship which made the tests on the central Pacific service. In command as always when Pan American starts a new project was its taciturn senior pilot, Captain Edwin C. Musick. With a six-man crew he buzzed uneventfully to Honolulu, slowing down to let Amelia Earhart pass undisturbed. From Honolulu, few days after Miss Earhart crashed (TIME. March 29), Capt. Musick again soared into the sky. this time turned southwest and faced the world's most ticklish navigation problem...
...giant picket lines and the defiant sit-downers sat tight behind their barricades. Two days later Chrysler followed General Motors' example by getting the judge to issue warrants for the arrest of the sitters and their leaders. This time it was not necessary for Governor Murphy to command a sheriff to ignore the court order. Cautious Sheriff Thomas J. Wilcox simply refused to budge. To enforce a similar ouster against only 100 sit-downers, armed with meat hooks and cleavers, in the Newton Packing Co. plant, the sheriff figured he would need 600 deputies. In the same ratio...
...violent Balbo resigned command of the Fascist Militia. Il Duce tucked him away as Undersecretary of National Economy, and he might have stayed in this sackcloth & ashes of atonement indefinitely had he not managed to wangle over to the Ministry of Aviation with his same rank of Undersecretary. Aviation and Balbo being what they are, this fiery Fascist soon got up so much momentum in the Air Service that in 1928 he skyrocketed to the rank of full "General of Air," next year entered the Mussolini Cabinet as its youngest member (33) as Air Minister. New Minister Balbo immediately removed...
...more than a year the Times high command has suspected the Hearst Examiner of reprinting its pictures without credit as though taken by Examiner men. Though the Examiner had no Associated Press Wirephoto Service, more than once it ran what looked like exact duplicates of Times Wirephotos of deaths & disasters. So when Times Photographer George Strock showed up at the hospital week before last to snap pictures of Fitts as he was wheeled into the operating room, he noted with interest that none of the Examiners 16 photographers was on hand. Snick! went the shutter of Photographer Strock...