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...C.I.O. convention a month ago, Phil Murray stormed at some of his union leaders for being Communists, at others for failing to work hard enough at their jobs. He struck out immediately at some Redlined wrongdoers.* Last week his wrath fell on one of the failures...
Blood Pressure. Three weeks ago Chiang had appointed as Premier Sun Fo, son of the great Sun Yatsen. Sun Fo last week was recovering from a leg operation and suffering from high blood pressure. He had not slept for nights. He had invited leader after leader to serve in his cabinet. None wanted to share the responsibility of continuing the war. After Paul Hoffman's Shanghai press conference (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Sun Fo went to Chiang with the proposal that the new cabinet be given Chiang's permission to seek a deal with the Communists that would...
When Daniels took over ARA a little over a year, ago, he argued for recognition of "Tacho" Somoza's puppet President Victor Román y Reyes in Nicaragua. Daniels realistically pointed out that nonrecognition had failed to weaken Tacho's grip on his volcano-ridged nation, and had put the U.S. into the position of refusing to recognize an established fact...
...Mexicans, Gaona is more than that. He is the dark-skinned Indian boy who 41 years ago brought even haughty Spaniards roaring to their feet when he fought on the same program with the great Juan Belmonte and José ("Joselito") Gómez y Ortega. Race-proud Spaniards called him El Indio, made him fight harder than the others for the reward of ears and tail...
Such were the beginnings of the University of Wisconsin, 100 years ago. Last week Wisconsin's Historian Merle Curti concluded that today's students would have found little, to their liking "in the plain living, the simple amusements, the rigid and rigorous disciplines" that their school started with. But many a 19th Century student remembered his campus days as the time of his life. Naturalist John Muir, leaving Madison in 1863, had paused on a high hill to look back "with streaming eyes" at the Wisconsin campus "where I had spent so many hungry and happy and hopeful...