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...public members, he has repeatedly forced Franklin Roosevelt to hold the line on inflation. In nearly 100, excellently clear WLB decisions (he wrote the Little Steel formula) he has favored neither labor nor management, hewing a straight line down the middle, largely in the public interest. In the final showdown with John Lewis, Morse was the unreconstructed diehard who stood firm against John's pay grab. All the U.S. will watch his campaign with interest...
...restore the Negroes' chance to rise to the job of fireman, to give them an equal chance at other jobs down the line. He cited figures showing a recent shortage of 850 firemen on U.S. railroads, although trained Negro firemen were unemployed. Chairman Ross was itching for a showdown. Said he: "We may not be able to wipe out discrimination overnight, but where war manpower needs are at stake we can and shall...
...Connally, a minor statesman from Texas, announced that the Committee would do nothing about the Fulbright Resolution or any other postwar resolution. But energetic Senator Joseph Ball, of B 2 H 2 ,* now threatened: unless the Committee acted in "a reasonable time" (say, 30 days), he would force a showdown by tacking that Resolution on to some bill. Newspapers hammered away at the Committee, and Committee members found stacks of angry letters on their desks. Franklin Roosevelt, who shows no desire to let peacemaking out of his hands, decided it was time to let the Committee get off the spot...
...second time war and peace hung delicately in the balance -more delicately even than at the time of the revolt which put the Army and President Pedro Ramirez in power and "prudently neutral" ex-President Ramón Castillo in the discard (TIME, June 14). For this time the showdown was clearly between the "rupturists" and "anti-rupturists" in the Ramirez Government...
...Showdown. Vice Admiral Storni had written his letter with President Ramirez' approval. After stormy Cabinet meetings, the newspapers were given complete texts. Then Storni resigned. His last official act was to assure the inquiring Japanese Ambassador that Argentina's foreign policy would not change...