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...entire industry would total from $500,000 to $3,000,000 a year to the union treasury.) Some Republicans howled that the President sent troops in to haul out obstinate employers, but was humble before Labor Boss Petrillo. Some suspected that Mr. Roosevelt was readying up a crackdown on Mr. Petrillo, to show that the White House could be tough with labor...
...State Department got all set last week to stage a full-dress crackdown on Sweden. Though friendly to the Allies, Sweden had continued to send Germany vital raw materials in order to keep her own economy going. Just as the last Departmental red tape had been unwound, and the crackdown readied up to the last paragraph, the shrewd Swedes forestalled it. Sweden announced that henceforth all her territorial ports on the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea, west to the Falsterbo Canal, would be closed to foreign trade, meaning Germany. Forthwith the State Department quietly filed its snickersnee away...
...final economic and financial crackdown against Argentina is in the works. State Department officials talked freely last week of: 1) dropping the United Nations beef contract with Argentina-up for renewal next month; 2) freezing Argentine funds...
Another Army crackdown disclosed last week was the demotion of Major General Ernest J. Dawley, corps commander of the troops who established the Salerno beachhead in Italy. Last September the Fifth Army's Lieut. General Mark Clark dropped Dawley to his permanent rank of colonel for losing control of a combat situation...
...woman who is shown making adjustments is trifling with a g-rt-r, a lubricous article of dress which may never again enliven the U.S. screen. Reason: last week it joined the sw-t-r on the black list of the Hays office.* In desperation at the recent Hays crackdown on leg art, Hollywood publicity cameramen have taken to shooting backsides, which are still within the law. Cracked one harried publicity agent: "Gee, if this keeps up, we'll just have to shoot pictures of girls in the nude...