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Safest way for a newspaperman to travel through Rightist Spain is to tread softly without stepping on the toes of Rightist Generalissimo Franco. Last week, safely perched on British Gibraltar after a six-week journey from end to end of Rightist territory, New York Times Staffwriter Harold Callender filed his first detailed dispatches on the German and Italian forces operating in Franco Spain...
...Ended a six-week filibuster on the Anti-Lynching bill, first defeating (for the second time) a motion for cloture, then voting 58-10-22 to lay the bill aside...
About the current state of the New York Stock Market, whose six-week decline has been attributed by many to thinness of trading brought on by SEC regulation, Chairman Douglas dropped several broad hints: "From time to time we hope to be able to get at the root of market trends. If it is natural, economic forces, that is one thing. If it is artificially caused, that is something else. You should remember that we are not interested in prices as such. . . . We want a free market, and prices will always go up & down in a free market, depending upon...
Sold to a standstill in the six-week slide that lopped off more than a year's gains, the stockmarket steadied last week, then rebounded feebly. By now it was crystal clear that whatever gave the market the first push downhill it would not have slid so far on a false alarm. But the market's barometric value is limited. It seldom indicates how much it will rain, or how long...
During the six-week decline no less than $15,000,000,000 in paper values have been wiped out. And the state of paper values has a potent influence on the state of public spending. As a result, retail stores began to worry over fall sales. Estimates for fall steel production were revised from 75% of activity to 70%. New financing was postponed. And the National Association of Purchasing Agents, cagiest of all buying groups, saw fit to warn that buying should be "conservative" when there was so much uncertainty, even though there is "no real fear of a serious...