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...Suggestions from Davis were that the Board be given the power to pick its own cases, that the Government quit giving defense contracts to manufacturers who have no collective bargaining agreements with their employes. Other suggestions: enlarge the Board, or create regional boards and let the overworked Dykstra Board function as a final supreme court in labor squabbles...
...deficient in the real qualities of leadership) realize that the morale of the people always has been and always will be a function of the morale of their leaders...
...Materiel. Those guns stuck out like sore thumbs-for the maneuvers had brought out not only the Army's spectacular new function as an instrument of defense, but also Mexico's spectacular weaknesses. Mexico has only 42,000 first-line combat troops. There are some 60,000 additional Agraristas, country volunteers, armed with rifles by the Government. Yearly conscript classes may soon be added to the regular reserve...
...relative strength of the two groups in a period of social change, Burnham implies in two casually grim sentences: "The position, role and function of the managers are in no way dependent upon the maintenance of capitalist property and economic relations (even if many of the managers themselves think so); they depend upon the technical nature of ... modern production." "The position, role and function of the most privileged of all groups, the finance-capitalists, are, however, entirely bound up with capitalist property and economic relations...
...commercial type of swing just isn't worth a weekly spiel from anyone's hardworking typewriter. Such a column would be only a series of publicity releases for a group which certainly doesn't need any more attention called to it. Their music has no other function than to sell itself, and beyond its passability on the dance floor there is nothing to it. The blaring brass, thumping drums, and pseudo-terpsichorean antics commonly associated with swing are only a rapidly fading part of the whole popular music field...