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...work of his life as a coal-heaver in a Detroit power plant, finally, in desperation, applied for a job as a policeman. Just as he had been accepted for the force, NEA decided it liked some of his drawings, asked him to go to Cleveland, offered him a contract to do a cartoon a day. At first Jim Williams' cartoons had hard sledding. Irate Cleveland dowagers wrote letters to the Cleveland Press, complaining that nobody wanted to see pictures of a lot of dirty machinists. But when 100,000 Cleveland shopworkers threatened to boycott the paper if Williams...
...their legal defense, but by many thousands of people throughout the United States who have perceived its obvious relation to the controversy, which is this: the American constitution guarantees to everyone the right to express his opinions whatever these may be. This right is naturally limited by any contract into which the individual may enter which requires him to spend part of his time in occupations other than expressing his opinions. Thus, if a salesman, a postman, a tailor and a teacher of mathematics all happen to hold a certain opinion on a subject unrelated to their work, whatever...
...revenues. (P. G. & E. sells the power for a gross of $8,900,000 a year.) The voters, long satisfied with this arrangement, were last week overruled by the U. S. Supreme Court. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black (Justice McReynolds alone dissenting) read a decision declaring the 15-year-old contract between San Francisco and P. G. & E. against...
...Hetch Hetchy (in a national park), the enabling Raker Act made the condition that Hetch Hetchy power should never fall for resale into the hands of a private corporation. Claiming at first that their deal was an emergency measure, later that it was not a resale but an agency contract, the city and P. G. & E. managed to avoid the gaze of Secretary of Interior Hubert Work, drew a warning from Secretary of Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur, finally fell afoul of Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes. Three years ago Ickes forced the City of San Francisco into court...
...Write a new, perhaps less illegal contract with P. G. & E. This Ickes (and probably the courts) would overrule...