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...York, there was some ripe political speculation. Handsome, strapping Brigadier General William O'Dwyer, late of the Allied Control Commission in Italy, returned to his $20,000-a-year job as Brooklyn's District Attorney. Bill O'Dwyer promptly squelched a rumor that he had returned to civvies to run as Democratic candidate for Mayor of New York next fall against Fusionist "Butch" LaGuardia...
...businessman, he contends that the time is not ripe for the rapid extension of the union shop. His reason: labor leadership is "not competent to use this great power wisely." Moreover, because it is a monopoly power, Ruml argues that the union shop must inevitably lead to Government regulation of unions to bar racial discrimination, excessive production costs through "feather bedding," etc. Until "the majority of labor leaders . . . are willing to accept such regulations as the price of the union shop ... too much haste [in extending it] would cause bitter, wasteful and unnecessary strife...
...GOPIedges. He criticized the unnecessary complexity of the laws, citing a ripe example from the present Revenue Act: "They shall not be deductible under subsection (a) but shall be deductible, if deductible under subsection (a) without regard to this subsection, under this subsection, but only to the following extent." Added Dewey dryly: "From there on it gets technical...
...real pressure under the low-priced shares was due, less to rumors, than to cash burning citizens' pockets. Unable to spend it for goods, they were ripe for a flyer in the market...
...Germans finally retreated. To escape a trap they fell back in disordered ribbons toward Paris and the Seine. On the road back, the swift-striking armor, the crunching weight of Allied guns, the unequaled devastation from the air would have even greater play. The Germans in western France were ripe for annihilation...