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...weeks ago Chiang Kai-shek began to take steps to reform the draft machinery. One of his ablest generals, Chen Cheng, is pushing a reorganization of the Army, to abolish about a third of its theoretical divisions, so that henceforth Chinese Army units will be full strength...
U.M.W. v. New Deal. John L. poured. Three days later he appeared before the convention with a 1,600-word resolution: 1,000 words denouncing the New Deal, 200 praising Governor Thomas E. Dewey. The New Deal, said the resolution, was the first administration "to abolish collective bargaining ... to bind men to their jobs like indentured servants." It passed the "Smith-Connally-Harness Slave...
...Abolish all Fascist organizations, free all antiFascists, intern all Axis nationals, restore in good order all property seized from Allied nationals...
...diplomacy turned the heat on Sweden and Spain last week. The flame burned hottest on Sweden's giant SKF (Svenska Kullagerfabriken), which supplies huge quantities of ball bearings to Germany's war machine. The U.S. had turned up the torch because the Swedish Government still declined to abolish these and other shipments (notably iron ore) to Germany, still insisted that a recent reduction was all the Allies should expect...
Since post-Reconstruction days, Negroes have been excluded - for one reason or another - from Democratic primaries in Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, South Carolina, Arkansas " and Georgia. During the past 17 years, usually with prodding by the N.A.A.C.P., the U.S. Supreme Court has passed on four cases designed to abolish "white supremacy" in Southern voting. Three times the determined South has been able to retain its white poll supremacy. In last week's ruling, the fourth, the Court said: Dr. Lonnie E. Smith, Negro dentist of Houston, must be allowed to vote in Texas' Democratic primaries. Hastily...