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...maze to Manhattan taxi drivers, is also a city of unsubmissive businessmen. In 1935 Brooklyn's four poultry-marketing Schechter brothers defied the National Recovery Administration, and the Supreme Court threw NRA out in the famed "sick chicken" case. Last week a Brooklyn shipbuilder, Bernard A. Moran, became the first U.S. employer to challenge the War Labor Board's powers under the new Connally-Smith-Harness anti-strike...
C.I.O.'s Marine and Shipbuilding Workers has tried since November 1938 to get a contract with Moran's Atlantic Basin Iron Works. Last month WLB ordered Moran to sign a union security (maintenance-of-membership) contract. Moran refused. Summoned before WLB, Shipbuilder Moran and his attorney argued that WLB could not even force him to compulsory arbitration...
...Shows of Yesteryear. Between 1907 and 1927 the Follies had just about everybody: Mae Murray, Ina Claire, Nora Bayes, Ed Wynn, Ann Pennington, Marion Davies, Marilyn Miller, George White, Leon Errol, Raymond Hitchcock, the Dolly Sisters, Van & Schenck, Moran & Mack. Among the Follies song writers were Victor Herbert, Jerome Kern, Rudolf Friml, Irving Berlin. In one edition or another, Fanny Brice choked throats with My Man, Gilda Gray upped blood pressures with her shimmy, Bill Fields played his ludicrous game of pool, Gallagher & Shean hurled countrywide their most famous song...
...into uniform. By the standard Hollywood formula this should make a new man of him, but Jordan is really tough; he haughtily defies sergeants and Army discipline, finally kidnaps a pretty canteen hostess (Helen Walker) and makes a getaway. Then he discovers that his double-crossing lieutenant, one Slip Moran (Sheldon Leonard), has usurped his racket throne and worked up a new dodge-stealing tank specifications to sell to Nazi spies...
...hijacking chase follows to determine whether Moran or Jordan delivers the plans and collects the seventy-five grand. Somehow Jordan winds up employing his shotgun in the service of Uncle...