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...ready to call strikes against big Bethlehem and National Steel, but it issued a strike call in the plants of three other big independents: Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Inland. Promptly 27 steel plants, most of them in Ohio and Illinois, were shut down, some 75,000 men quit work, and 15% of the Steel industry shut up shop in the midst of its busiest season in years, an ideal strike season from Labor's viewpoint...
...years Justice Van Devanter had been preparing to retire, had provided himself with a 778-acre farm in Maryland for that purpose, but lately opponents of the President's Court Plan had urged him not to quit. According to the account generally accepted in Washington last week, he finally appealed to Senator Borah for approval. Senator Borah consulted Senator Wheeler, and they urged him to do as he wished. Mr. Van Devanter hoped that Justice Brandeis, who is 80 and belongs to the opposite, liberal wing of the Court, would retire at the same time, but Mr. Brandeis...
They Gave Him A Gun (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "I live for my country and work for it . . .'' says Jimmy (Franchot Tone) in this picture, "but when they order me to travel 3.000 miles to be a butcher, I quit." This is just after he has fainted from disgust during a 1917 bayonet drill and is being revived by his buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy). At the front, equipped with a high-powered rifle and good eyesight, Jimmy's attitude changes. When luck puts him in a church steeple with a perfect chance to pick off five members...
...fifth month of an ordinary session would find Congress, well past the warm-up stage, in a healthy sweat of legislative action. Last week, beginning its fifth month, the Senate met on Monday, adjourned until Thursday, met briefly then and quit for the week. Outside of giving final approval to the Treasury-Post Office Appropriations Bill and providing $5,000,000 for Federal participation in the New York World's Fair of 1939, its most newsworthy activity was listening to a speech by Idaho's Borah against fascism...
Increasingly displayed last week was a Congressional disposition to quit altogether during the summer months...