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...immediately procured a restraining order from the State Supreme Court preserving the status quo until this week. Simultaneously Sheriff William J. Hamilton Jr., Mayor Wilson's bitterest political foe, ostentatiously mobilized 160 pudgy deputies "to enforce the orders of the courts." The Civil Service Commission in the meantime opened an investigation of Sam Wilson's action in ordering police to circulate 7,000 "Stop the Gas Steal" petitions, each headed by his signature. Snorted Civil Service Commission Chairman Thaddeus M. Daly: "There are three courses this commission may take . . . ask the council to take appropriate action...
Censorship has not been a major problem in this war. The great bulk of the reporting has been done behind China's lines and the Chinese do not wish to minimize their foe's might. Coverage of this war has other quixotic aspects. Reporters who are in a Chinese city one day may find it belongs to Japan the next. In Shanghai correspondents and cameramen could sleep comfortably in clean hotel beds, decide each morning which army they wanted to cover that day. But such convenience bred its carelessness and, for example, all United Press...
There is one thing on which we agree: With foe or with friend We will fight...
...newly formed to promote the Catholic point of view in C. I. O. and A. F. of L. unions, quietly opened a free experimental school for workers in Fordham University's Woolworth Building quarters. To the press rushed Rev. Ignatius Wiley Cox, Fordham professor of ethics and loud foe of birth control and the press, to announce that Fordham was starting "the first attempt to interpret workers' problems by other than Marxian theories." Text for the courses, in which 100 unionists had enrolled last week, will be the encyclicals on labor by Pope Leo XIII and Pope Pius...
...cockily proclaiming himself Provisional President instead. That coup has been known as the "Coffee Revolution," since Brazil's former dominant States, São Paulo and Minas Geraes, had been weakened by a collapsing coffee market. Dressy but small (5 ft. 4 in.), President Vargas proclaimed himself a foe of the tottering coffee barons, set out to consolidate his political position by binding Brazil's 20 jealous, bickering States, most of whose governors supported their own armies, into a tightly centralized commonwealth. Having put down revolution in São Paulo in 1932, he had himself elected President...