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...reasonable request--and when this was refused by the board, began a demonstration. Here again the limits of decorum may have been passed, but surely it was stupid for the board to call policemen with clubs to cope with an outburst of indignant emotion, and still less wise to suspend two of the protesting teachers. To grant the public trial asked for would do more to restore morale among teachers and students than stubbornness and punishment. Policemen's clubs and presidential umbrellas are no longer believed to have much educative value. --The Nation...
...upping provisions of the law. His first step called for a series of Washington conferences with the producers and processors of each basic commodity to shape up an operating program on marketing agreements. If most millers consent to buy wheat from growers at $1 per bu., Secretary Wallace can suspend the anti-trust law to sanction such a bargain. If a minority group of millers refuse to join the agreement and try to beat wheat down to 80?, Secretary Wallace can, under the law. coerce them into line by suspending their Federal licenses as processors and penalizing them...
...wife a penny. In New York City prisons alone last week were 130 delinquent alimony payers when the new laws became effective. Judges were now given wide discretion. If a husband could not pay because he was jobless and without property or income, the court was free to suspend its contempt orders, let him go. By his power to modify alimony payments, a judge likewise could keep divorce debts from piling up on an imprisoned husband. No longer could irate wives, as a matter of legal right, demand the permanent jailing of their men. In New Jersey last week Governor...
...afternoon last week. Some were farmers in ragged overalls. Others looked like blackshirted hoodlums from nearby Sioux City. They kept their hats on, continued to smoke. Before the tall bachelor on the bench were cases involving a first test of the new state law to suspend farm mortgage foreclosures. One of the intruders arrogantly demanded to be heard. Judge Bradley silenced him. The crowd growled...
...penny a pint and brewers announced that this reduction would be passed on to consumers immediately. Another dispensation was permission to brew strong ale up to 6% by weight. Snapped persistently dry Lady Astor: "It's a brewer's budget. . . . What the government has clone is to suspend the sinking fund in order to create a drinking fund...