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The lynch law of Latin American justice is the "ley de fuga" (law of flight). This is supposed to empower police to shoot fleeing prisoners, but in practice often means that a troublesome prisoner is set free, then drilled before he can scoot out of range. From León...
Leader Lewis' United Mine Workers and the nine other industrial unions then composing C. I. O. were suspended from A. F. of L. by its Executive Council last summer (TIME, Aug. 17). Since then the future course of the U. S. labor movement has hung in a suspense which...
Month ago, to still growing discontent in the cow counties, the State Commission of Agriculture upped the price of fluid milk to $2.70 per cwt., the price of milk for other uses to $2.05. The Pisecks retorted by demanding $3 for all milk regardless of the use to which it...
The Pittman-McReynolds bill would further allow the President to prohibit shipment to belligerents of abnormal amounts of any commodities essential to war, except food and medical supplies. Kinds and "normal" amounts of commodities would be fixed by him. Modifying its mandatory embargo on loans & credits, the bill would empower...
In 1927 Ohio's Representative Theodore E. Burton introduced a resolution to empower the President to prohibit at his discretion export of arms & munitions to the aggressor in any war. Then & there arose the issue which has divided U. S. neutrality-seekers ever since, setting the Senate implacably against...