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4. Roosevelt asked for repeal of the Wagner Act.
5. The House passed a stringent anti-strike bill.
26. When war came the President called a labor-industry conference which agreed on all but one of the following:
1. No extension of the closed shop for the duration.
2. No strikes for the duration.
3. No lockouts for the duration.
4. Mandatory conciliation, mediation, arbitration of all disputes.
5. A War Labor Board to handle disputes.
27. When John L. Lewis proposed A.F.L. and C.I.O. get together President Roosevelt:
1. Urged that it be brought about at once.
2. Said he "feared Greeks bearing gifts."
3. Opposed the plan, set up a six man A.F.L.-C.I.O. Committee to consult with him.
4. Suggested Lewis head a unified labor movement.
5. Warned that monopoly might result.
28. The conviction of stagehand leaders Bioff and Browne was a personal victory for graft-hating columnist:
1. Westbrook Pegler.
2. Robert S. Allen.
3. Walter Lippmann.
4. Walter Winchell.
5. Hugh S. Johnson.
HERE AND THERE
29. Only network to take the Government's side in the current broadcasters' battle is:
1. NBC Red.
2. Mutual.
3. The recently separated NBC Blue.
4. Yankee.
5. Columbia.
30. The leadership of the Chicago Tribune was challenged for the first time in years by Marshall Field and his:
1. Globe.
2. Times.
3. McCormick Reaper.
4. Sun.
5. News.
31. A week after the Normandie burned and turned over people were still wondering how officials could have:
1. Removed the struts holding her erect to facilitate the firefighting.
2. Failed to muster more than one fire boat.
3. Let 111 of the 1,500 workers get trapped and killed.
4. Let people go aboard for a 50¢ Naval Relief fee.
5. Exercised only the most superficial surveillance over the workers aboard.
32. Attorney-General Biddle took the most drastic step yet against our 3,516,947 enemy aliens when he:
1. Suspended the citizenship rights of their children.
2. Ordered them to evacuate 135 areas by Feb. 24.
3. Subjected them to a 9 p.m. curfew law.
4. Put those in California into concentration camps.
5. Deprived them of radios, cars and telephones.
WORLD BATTLEFRONTS
ELEVENTH HOUR
33. In their darkest hour since Dunkirk, Churchill spoke to the British, announced the fall of Singapore and:
1. Called the escape of the Nazi fleet "inexcusable."
2. Pointedly failed to mention recent Red victories.
3. Said Pearl Harbor had not seriously crippled the U. S. Fleet.
4. Revealed the Mediterranean was now closed to Allied shipping.
5. Claimed Port Darwin was a "second Singapore, identical in fleet facilities and fire power."
WAR IN THE PACIFIC
34. Even as Pearl Harbor burned the Japs attacked the Philippines, where by January's end all but one of these things had happened:
1. The Japs landed at many points along the coast.
2. They bombed and captured Manila after it was declared an open city.
3. General MacArthur successfully concentrated his forces, withdrew to Bataan.