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...bank issued a sharp, 64-word statement (which Washer later quoted in his complaint): "We cannot see how this institution could possibly reinstate anybody who had admittedly falsified his expense account . . . been guilty of flagrant insubordination, who called inhabitants of the community in which he was working 'yokels' and 'country bumpkins' and labeled the town 'Siberia.' " The bank fought up to the U.S. Supreme Court and lost (thereby establishing the right of bank employes to organize under the Wagner Act), finally reinstated Washer with $5,503 in back pay. Washer then sued the bank...
...told farmers that their troubles were due to the fact that the farmer had to buy in a tariff-protected market, sell in competition with "the peon workers of the Argentine. . . ." For this familiar complaint John Bracken, who is a farmer himself, had a brand-new farmer's remedy-he would replace such agricultural aids as guaranteed floor prices and special subsidy payments with a basic formula: let farm prices be fixed in advance of each crop year at levels high enough to guarantee the farmers "their proportionate share of the national income...
...Tiny Squeak." Senator La Follette's chief complaint against U.S. foreign policy: "Our failure to step forward with an American democratic alternative" to British imperialism and Russian power politics. Said he: "The people wonder if they are to be committed now to enforce a peace settlement which violates American principles of freedom and democracy." And what, the Senator asked, is to be done about the chaos in Italy, the policy toward Franco, the fate of the Poles? "The American people wonder about our policy in the Far East. Do we favor a strong China or do we side with...
Hollywood Howl. When the complaint reached the U.S. last week, the indignant stars set up a howl of their own. Actress Goddard insisted that she had "played all but three days when I was ordered to bed by the Army physician." Comedian Brown, who has an outstanding record of devotion to soldier entertainment and whose soldier son was killed in a plane crash, angrily retorted that he "did all a 53-year-old man could do." The Hollywood Victory Committee blamed broken promises on Army snags, added that Ann Sheridan and Joel McCrea had both been , held up by lack...
...Catholic New Orleans area; and 2) the advertising had been approved by an interdenominational advisory committee. But objections soon poured in from such conservative Catholic sources as the 50,000 New York State Knights of Columbus and the 51,000 New York and New Jersey Catholic War Veterans. Sample complaint: "We should seek to promote morality and clean living rather than the open and shameless discussion of the checking of diseases contracted through sinful practices." The War Advertising Council gave up, announced that it would not urge advertisers to cooperate...