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Mary O'Dennell '49, Barbara Heanue '49, and Jane Rainie '50 were named to draw up the report as the result of Council opinion that more stringent checking of books is called for and that the possibility of ending Assembly should be investigated...
...farm. Burly (5 ft. 10½ in., 200 Ibs.) Bill Beardsley got around to picnics and rallies all over the state, paid no attention to the professional politicos. Most Iowans liked his record in the legislature. He had fought the governor on school legislation, had opposed Blue's stringent labor laws. When the returns came in, Bill Beardsley was the busiest man in Iowa. He was back of his soda fountain, helping fix the sundaes, Cokes and coffee for his farm neighbors...
Thirteen states prohibit the union shop.* But the Taft-Hartley law does not bar it, if a majority of employees vote for it. Thus union leaders, in cases involving interstate commerce, have been able to use the federal labor law as a safe refuge from more stringent state laws...
...dozens of Congressmen and Senators continued to cry angrily for a more stringent embargo against Russia; some for a complete halt of all shipments to the U.S.S.R. Thousands of U.S. citizens, who bitterly recalled pre-Pearl Harbor scrap shipments to Japan, agreed wholeheartedly...
...Twist. A mountaineer, asked why he persistently tried to scale Mt. Everest, answered with some surprise: "Because it is there." The same answer could be made by many explorers. But with the growth of science, the most romantic impulses were given a stringent, practical twist...