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Would Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt be acceptable to him as a running-mate (as suggested fortnight ago by Republican Clare Boothe Luce*)? Of course, of course. What else could he be expected...
...injunction presumably would apply until the railway wage dispute has been settled. It was no nearer settlement last week than it was eight weeks ago, when Judge Goldsborough issued his temporary order and the Army took over nominal operation of the roads. The engineers, firemen and switchmen still wanted more than double the 15½?-an-hour raise which a fact-finding board had recommended as a fair settlement. Their demands were louder than ever now because, they said, even while they had been arguing, the cost of living had gone up. The conductors and trainmen, who had accepted...
Standing in the shadow of the Washington Monument one day last week, Harry Truman, forgetting for the moment his inter-party struggles, spoke familiarly and engagingly of his childhood, of the Republic, and of his predecessors in the White House. Just 100 years ago, the cornerstone of the monument had been laid. In Harry Truman's hand was a gavel, used in the 1848 ceremonies attended by President Polk and used before that by George Washington when he laid the cornerstone of the Capitol...
...leaders that they must fight the "infection" of diversionist elements. "In the last three weeks," cried Pieck, "you have lost all the popularity you have gained in the last three years." And the children heard the sound, and feared it, for it stirred memories of bombings not so long ago-children like twelve-year-old Max, who each night recited an English prayer he had learned in his German school...
...keep our mouths shut." Returning to the U.S. last week from a visit home, he told a little about the new Czechoslovakia, then shut his mouth. John Benes had left his brother Eduard "ill and under precarious circumstances," he said. "For 19 months I was constantly watched. Two weeks ago my brother told me two soldiers were watching me and it was time to go home. I cannot tell you more. I am afraid to talk...