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This week the Supreme Court upheld the Taft-Hartley provision requiring non-Communist oaths from labor leaders-a clause that was once labor's bitterest pill, and has since proved almost as easy to take as an aspirin. The justices had a hard time making up their collective mind: Chief Justice Vinson's majority opinion was shared by Justices Burton and Reed; Justice Frankfurter was on their side, but for his own rendered reasons; Justice Black flatly dissented; and Justice Jackson was somewhere in the middle, partly agreeing, partly dissenting. Three others (Justices Douglas, Clark and Minton) stayed...
...Smart Guys. Editor Morris, who has had to resign his parish post in Birkdale, Lancashire to devote full time to the magazine, deftly manages to dispense his message without sacrificing any of the thrills & chills his readers expect for their thruppence. But beneath the candy coating the Christian pill can be detected in such touches as the special, advanced category of Eagle Club members called "Mugs...
...Mailing Service moved into its present pill-box from Grays Hall in 1947. Prior to that, the Lodge had housed the gateman and sundry other University officials. Greene was surprised when a venerable gentleman approached his booth and requested two tickets to the Yale game. It seems that the Gateman's Lodge once housed the entire HAA--a little over thirty years...
...doubtful, however, that the CCA need seriously worry at all, about such a remark. Its four incumbents on the council, Pill, Swan Crane, and Deguglielmo are all likely to be reelected. Lawrence F. Feloney, a newcomer is running a strong race. CCA's organization and growing prestige are likely to give it at advantage over the "independents" who depend wholly on votes they can rally in this own districts through personal popularity...
...eating between meals (no "pies, lies [or] doughnuts at Wellesley," Founder Durant had warned). By 1900 she wanted to be a Gibson girl, and a few years later, to the horror of her elders, she began sewing in class, missing vesper service and using such unseemly words as "prune," "pill," and "nifty...