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...signed a contract with the United Automobile Workers last year. But he lost in his own peculiar way: once he had made up his mind, he called in his labor-herder, Harry Bennett, asked what the union wanted. He knew what he wanted. Said Henry Ford: "Why in the hell don't we give it [the union shop and checkoff] to them now and save all that trouble? We've got to get ahead with some work around here...
Last week the Mississippi Senate, for the third time this session, fearlessly faced the issue. The opposition thundered that a bill permitting Sunday movies would "open the gates of hell." Roared Senator Joe Daws of De Kalb (pop. 866): The Pearl Harbor tragedy came about because sailors were not at their posts. "They were attending Sunday movies...
This was too much for white-haired Senator Dave Crawley of Kosciusko (pop. 4,291). "I don't dispute the story," said he, "but I do observe a picture show is a hell of a place to lose it." After the fireworks, the bill passed: 29-to-10, went to the House, which has twice killed a similar bill. The measure was strictly class legislation. Even if the House should pass the bill, cockfights, bullfights, and bearbaiting will still be illegal in Mississippi on Sundays...
...when General Gordon Bennett flew home, only his family and a few brother officers greeted him in Sydney. In Melbourne the War Cabinet coldly awaited his report. General Gordon Bennett could -and did- sayfor himself that he had endured his men's hell to the last, that he did not leave until after the surrender. It was still not a pretty story...
Babies, fighter pilots, nursing mothers and hell-bending West Coast fishermen were all interested, or should have been, in the fact that there was a West Coast boom in shark-liver...