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Some London wag nailed a horseshoe last week to the door of the International Committee on Non-intervention in Spain. Hitherto deadlocked, the Committee was soon lucky in reaching virtual unanimity on the British scheme to secure "substantial" withdrawal of volunteers fighting on both sides in Spain, then accord full belligerent rights to both Leftists and Rightists (TIME, Nov. 1). "There is not a single member of the committee who does not accept [The Scheme], excepting Russia," announced Viscount Cranborne, an acting chairman. "Yet I think it may be that even Russia tomorrow may see her way to accept...
...more long-range significance was Big Steel's other announcement last week- a complete shuffling of officers, the virtual completion of Chairman Myron C. Taylor's ten-year program of reshaping Big Steel. Chairman Taylor, who looked more like an Episcopal bishop than a steelmaster, was an eminently successful lawyer when he became a U. S. Steel director in 1925. Seven years later he succeeded J. P. Morgan as chairman. Head of the finance committee in 1927, he had by 1929 retired most of Big Steel's funded debt, thereby reducing fixed charges some...
...were by this time weighing on my own conscience-the use of terror as a technique of government, the suppression and punishment of heretical opinion within the ranks of devoted communists, the persecution of scientists and scholars, the distortion of history to fit new policies, systematic forced labor, the virtual enslavement of workers and peasants in the name of socialism. ... I was depressed by the feeling of a magnificent opportunity frittered away...
Instanter Dave Beck declared war, ordering his teamsters to cease trucking all goods handled by the Bridges longshoremen-a virtual embargo of the entire San Francisco waterfront. Exceptions were made for such things as perishables and Government orders. Soon settled and forgotten was the original warehousemen-California Packing squabble. For pugnacious Dave Beck it had served its purpose as a labor Sarajevo. What started as a local warehouse squabble was by last week a major labor battle, involving the whole of San Francisco, threatening the whole Pacific Coast...
Long a sore point with New Yorkers has been Newark's virtual monopoly as the terminal of the Metropolitan district's passenger, mail & commercial air traffic. No New Yorker has had so long or so sharp a knife out for Newark as New York's flying...