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...half million subway riders in New York City last week faced the imminent threat of a strike in the underground transportation systems. City Government and labor leaders, howling bad cess at one another, had quarrelel themselves into a deadlock. The point at issue was fundamental to Government and union labor: have State or municipal employes a right to strike? The same question, in different terms, had been debated before-notably in Boston, Mass., when in 1919 Governor Calvin Coolidge called out the State Guard to break a policemen's strike. In New York City the situation was more complicated...
...Threat of invasion by the Indo-Chinese...
...called in Sumner Welles. To Under Secretary Welles he gave the task of drafting a statement that would make clear to the U.S. the implications of Hitler's move: the magnitude of Hitler's vision of his world, the scope of his dreams of conquest, the threat to the U.S. proved even by the German attack on Russia...
...ever-present threat to Chiang Kai-shek's government...
...Chairman James Lawrence Fly made in current hearings before the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee. In response to FCC's charges, the networks have assembled a battery of high-priced lobbyists, and rallied women's clubs and educators to their defense on the ground that a threat to them is a threat to their unsponsored cultural features. CBS has even printed 800,000 copies of a defensive "White Paper...