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...June the Dow-Jones industrials dropped approximately 15%, from 194.4 to 165.5. By last week they were back to 172.2. Mercurial shifts in Wall Street sentiment can never be adequately explained but the chief contributing factors last week seemed to be the lifting in some measure of the triple threat of strikes (see p. 77), war and perennial troubles in France...
...chilled [shot] 100 rounds 30-30 automatic." Mr. Hoffman swore he would, if necessary, leave Congress to lead his men himself. "They can sit around here and talk evasions and other nonsense," stormed the berserk Republican, "but I stand for law and order." Much less of a threat to the public peace was a final outburst on the floor of the House. Cried Mr. Hoffman: "By the aid of his Secretary of Labor, who was born only God knows where but whose destination, if the predictions of many be true, is absolutely certain; with the assistance of his traitorous tool...
...most important, if not the most generally attended of all newspaper conventions in the history of the country," and italicizing the fact that it would be limited to "executives from the home office," Publisher Stahlman & friends summed up their clarion call thus: "[The closed shop] is a most serious threat to a free press, and consequently to the liberties of a free people. Many publishers throughout the country have already expressed the feeling that the newspapers should stand together against this common danger. . . . We cannot urge you too strongly to attend...
...meeting "consider any interference with nor violation of the letter or the spirit of the Wagner Act." At week's end, however, as acceptances indicated at least 1,000 publishers or their home-office representatives would attend, the Guild in its Reporter solemnly recognized the publishers' threat: "It voices a challenge to the Guild on one of the most fundamental of the new requirements for contracts laid down at St. Louis, the Guild shop...
...failure of parliamentary government to maintain itself in Italy. Next came the advent of the Nazi regime in Germany, and now we witness actual warfare with all its barbarism in Spain. Finally we have seen the hopes of peace through collective security appear to fade and now the threat of rearmament hangs over all of Europe. There have been problems and disturbances of our own, of course,--problems grave enough to produce a tension in the most serene of temperaments. But the tension in the last few years has certainly been heightened by the emotions generated in our collective psyche...