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Uppers & Lowers. WLB's added powers were something new in the history of New Deal labor relations. Under Presidential decree, WLB now has the authority to withhold the dues of a recalcitrant union, to cancel its contract, to void any and all union benefits. The board can also recommend to the War Manpower Commission a change in the draft status of noncomplying union members...
Last week's public hearings in Manhattan were fair samples of Committee tactics. Cox & Co. professed to be mightily upset by FCC's recent pressure on foreign-language broadcasting stations. They charged that FCC, with power to withhold or revoke licenses, was forcing station managers to fire broadcasters, take on others favorable to FCC "politics." By control of personnel, they added, FCC was censoring broadcasts...
...British War Office's old prejudice against identifying military units smaller than armies or corps. The immediate cause of the Mackenzie King discontent was the procedure in announcing the invasion of Sicily. Told of the action the day it started, Canada's Prime Minister was requested to withhold any personal announcement about Canadian participation until midnight of the second...
...supply of toluol (for TNT) before the Army was fully aware of its importance. By adroit bluffing, he got the Chilean Government to help knock the price of nitrates from 7½? to 4⅛? a lb. He got jute from India at his price by threatening to withhold the silver shipments that stabilized India's rupee. He got iron ore from Sweden, wangled mules from Spain. In effect, he invented modern economic warfare...
...prepared by Giraud for submission to De Gaulle turned out to be resting in Bob Murphy's coat pocket). The recent Giraud speech on French unity showed definite signs of U.S. influence; there were reports that he framed it as he did partly because the U.S. threatened to withhold equipment from his French troops. But such manifestations did not necessarily prove that Henri Giraud was a mere opportunist. He probably gave a better explanation in Algiers, just after his unity speech, and just before he left for Tunisia, when he said...