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...steel mills of Pittsburgh and Baltimore to talk with employes. She returned to Washington prepared to make vigorous war on the steel industry's proposed company unions-''War bridegrooms" she called them, harking back to the able-bodied citizens who got married to escape the draft. Before the hearings opened the steelmasters, confronted by Madam Secretary Perkins and General Johnson, backed down on the company union provisions of their code, thus permitting the dispute to shift to the coal fields where they hoped to fight it out obliquely. Though her major target thus disappeared, Madam Secretary Perkins...
...publisher of a yellow newspaper is to hit him in the pocketbook." Let the police chiefs appoint a committee to meet with other committees of editors, publishers, advertisers, and-to make sure of their ground-a committee of the American Bar Association. Let them draft a code of newspaper conduct in dealing with crime. Then "the yellow press . . . will be revealed for what it is, just as the American Medical Association exposes a quack doctor and the American Bar Association reveals the shyster." "Bing" Bingay, probably the best known newsman in Detroit, knows intimately the ways of the police...
...statesmen exchanged the draft text of an Austro-Hungarian-Italian trade treaty which may prove of utmost impor tance. It is no secret that Il Duce opposes Adolf Hitler's efforts to draw Austria into union with Germany-which would mean that Italy would face on her northern frontier not puny Austria but the potent German Reich. According to the draft text exchanged in Rome last week Italy is ready to agree to increase her purchases from Austria and Hungary and, over a period of years, to buy from them more than they sell...
...draft was a Wilson-to-Crowder-to-Johnson assignment...
...monetary stability at levels now unguessable. Since no delegation wished to blame any other publicly for anything, last week was spent and the coming week was expected to pass in committee debates on such innocuous topics as Senator Key Pittman's silver resolution. "I've rewritten the draft of it 15 times," he confessed. "It is getting so I don't recognize it any more. We may get somewhere-I hope we do-but I'm no bleating optimist any more!" "We Cannot Participate!" With the chief Continental delegates mostly back on the Continent (where Germany...