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Congressional emasculation of the much-debated draft act has provided the world with the year's best example of electioneering and buck-passing. Despite repeated pleas by President Truman and General Eisenhower for Congressional support of our world-wide commitments, the House of Representatives has apparently decided that reelection is...
Federal courts had no right to throw out the case of A.L.O.F. Bell of "Mankind United" (a California religious sect), who had sued FBI agents for unlawful search and seizure. The federal courts had dismissed the case on the ground that there was no federal question involved. The Court ruled...
In an atmosphere of tension and hysteria Reuther at last went to Convention Hall to hear the decision. With sideline fist fights, near-riots, shouts of "quack, quack" (the auto workers' way of saluting Communist colleagues), with threats and pleas for order from the chair-and with most of...
The rumpus over the British credit made the State Department discourage other large-scale borrowers. Paris papers predicted that France's special "good will" emissary, Leon Blum, expected in the U.S. in mid-February, would ask for $2.5 billion. His pleas might fall on near-deaf ears, even if...
Request Performance is a success because the actors themselves have a stake in it. The program was started and is owned by the Masquers Club, whose members are Hollywood stars. Campbell Soup pays them $15,000 a week. Much of the credit goes to Writers Jerome Lawrence, 30, and Robert...