National Affairs: Talons' Slip

Talon's Slip

Warring on chiselers, General Johnson last week summoned more than 100 cleaners, pressers, dyers to Washington for public hearings on charges of code violations, planned to conduct the sessions himself to give the U. S. a spectacular demonstration that the Blue Eagle has claws.

Same day in Tampa, Federal Judge Alexander Akerman handed down a decision that clipped the Eagle's talons. Several cleaners and dyers joined in asking a court order to restrain Samuel Bazemore of St. Petersburg, Fla. from advertising prices in what is known in the South as "pressing clubs," lower...

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