Conference on Public Affairs Shapes Mock Legislature
About 115 students from 15 colleges and universities at Ohio State University worked to draft a mock legislature and foreign policy plan during a two day session. Speakers included Joseph Starobin and Oliver Loud, who debated Czech upheaval and Marshall Plan alternatives. Labor leaders Lewis Hines and William LaVelle urged broader ERP representation and freedom of choice for western Europe.
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Ohio State University
Joseph Starobin
Communist Daily Worker
United States
Starobin
Czechoslovakia
Hassit Schenck
Farmer
Indiana Farm Bureau
Winston Churchil
Jess
Neville Chamberlain
Schenck
Russia
Oliver Loud
Ohio
Progressive Citizens of America
Loud
Labor
Lewis Hines
AFL
William LaVelle
Ohio Cio
Hines
Congress
LaVelle
Western
Europe
Ban Denounced By The CIO
The CIO denounces the Taft Hartley Act ban on union political activity as unconstitutional and an attack on free speech. Federal lawyers for the CIO challenge the ban while the Justice Department defends it as neutrality enforcement in federal elections. The filing seeks dismissal of a grand jury indictment accusing the CIO and President Philip Murray of illegally participating in Edward A. Garmott’s Maryland congressional race.
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Washington
CIO
Justice Department
Congress
Purely Vegetarian Diet May Shorten Life, Chicago Study Says
University of Chicago research on laboratory rats shows omnivorous diets support longer lifespans than pure vegetarian regimens. Two long studies and several shorter trials found vegetarians grew stunted and did not live as long as those fed meat-containing diets.
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University of Chicago
From 3000 Soil Investment to 75000 Coal Return
Jimmy Lynch, once penniless, bought 65 acres of bottom land for 3000 to sell top soil and discovered a coal vein beneath. Engineers estimate 600000 to 1000000 tons of coal could be mined for four years, yielding about 75000 in profit to Lynch.
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Pittsburgh
Jimmy Lynch
Lynch
Pennsylvania
Court dairies seek quick ruling on union funding ban
Attorneys for Murray press for an early ruling on the constitutionality of the labor union and corporate political expenditure ban, arguing the measure bears directly on upcoming elections and affects working people nationwide.
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Murray
America
Trial Set In CIO Brief Case Before Visiting West Virginia Justice
The Chronicle-Telegram reports a CIO related brief was presented to the court by Murray's lawyers Charles Margiotti Lee Pressman and Frank Donner. Judge Ben Moore of West Virginia presided as visiting justice in the local court with a ruling expected by nightfall according to some Justice Department lawyers.
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Murray
Charles Margiotti
Lee Pressman
Frank Donner
Ben Moore
West Virginia
Moore
Justice Department
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