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...rather have The Maytag Co." For standing up for the strikers, Congregational Pastor E. A. Remige was asked to resign, did so last week, saying: "I have simply maintained there are two sides . . . but one can't say that in Newton without getting into trouble." For contempt of court in connection with an injunction restricting picketing, the union's young (27) international president, James B. Carey, and two other officials, were fined $500, given six months in jail, told by Judge Homer A. Fuller that they need not pay a cent or serve a day if they called...
...opera was being written, Librettist Zweig, worried by Nazi growls, suggested that they call the whole thing off, that Strauss get himself another librettist acceptable to the German authorities. In reply to Librettist Zweig's suggestion, white-haired Strauss wrote a long letter. In it he expressed his contempt for the Nazis, and his hunch that by the time the opera was completed they would be out of power anyhow. The letter was addressed to Zweig in Vienna, but Zweig did not receive it. At the Austrian border, Nazi officials opened the letter and read it. While Propaganda Minister...
...This contempt Reporter Callender illustrated with the anecdote of the Spanish barber who, while shaving an Italian, put the question, "Why did you come here...
Caustic without being bitter is Boston's white-thatched, bow-tied Porter Sargent. The saltiest commentator on U. S. education, from which he makes his living but for which he has a certain amused contempt, Porter Sargent prefaces his famed annual catalogue of 4,000 private schools with his shrewd opinions on men and affairs. Last week, in the 22nd edition of his Handbook of Private Schools, he threw most of his custard pies at the two most popular favorites of U. S. higher education -President James Bryant Conant of Harvard and President Robert Maynard Hutchins of University...
Last week, while a U. S. Circuit court was giving NLRB another one in the bread basket (see above), the Second Appellate Court of Illinois upheld the convictions for contempt, clearly informed Illinois employers that State and local law still protected them from illegally conducted sit-downs. Said the Court: "There is nothing in the Wagner Act which deals with the subject of violence or any illegal acts committed by employes in the course of an industrial dispute, and in our opinion Congress did not by this enactment deprive or attempt to deprive the States of their police power...