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...Canada was so fed up with strikes, so anxious for a crackdown, that conservatives and labor leaders alike com plained that the order was inconclusive and a half measure, no answer to Canada's labor problem. As soon as the order was published, Minister McLarty took a walk. Ill for some time, he went off for a badly needed vacation. Political dopesters in Ottawa were pretty sure that he would not be Labor Minister when he returned...
...grounds that the Argentine Constitution called for free trade, Argentina refused to approve the U.S. black list of Nazi-affiliated business houses. Same day the Government started a crackdown on all propaganda in the mails, began rounding up members of the fascistic "Superior Council of Nationalism...
...Next crackdown hit two of the industry's three recalcitrants-Engineers Public Service and Commonwealth & Southern. (The third, Electric Bond & Share, has been growing more compromise-minded.) E.P.S. was told to choose between a system based on its Virginia or on its Gulf States properties. Crying "unconstitutional," E.P.S. threatened suit. C. & S. was told to base its future on its southern or its northern properties (the proceeds of the sale could be used to pay off some preferred arrears). Replied C. & S.'s spokesman, Lawyer George Roberts: "To say that we were shocked ... is to put it mildly...
Montana's isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler one day last month threatened a legislative crackdown on cinemen for "carrying on a violent propaganda campaign intending to incite the American people...
ASCAP, whose members include every big name in U. S. music and whose contract calling for a percentage of the networks' take caused the breach, set up monitors in 31 U. S. cities. First to get the crackdown was the Fred Allen show. Twice, claimed ASCAP, the program had allegedly tootled the strains of the late ASCAPper George Gershwin's Winter-green For President. Legal talent prepared to sue CBS and its stations which carried the program, Texaco, the ad agency...