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...keep union hours, nor do they get extra pay for overtime. ... I might remind Mr. Smathers that servicemen also pay taxes-out of the salaries the gentleman insists come from taxes paid by him and the rest of the oppressed. His tone implies that the services are akin to charitable organizations, which he as a taxpayer is forced to support. Shall we forgo our salaries so that he does not have to pay the taxes from which such salaries are derived...
...best match of the afternoon was the final of the 175 pound class with John "Murph" Murphy coming up after almost being pinned by Paul Akin and winning by a fall in 4:42 with a half nelson and a body press. In the semifinals of this event Murphy won by a fall in 5:45 over Leverett's Johnny Ward, the only non-Kirkland man in that class...
...akin to these great migrations, there is a movement of the mind of man. The plans for the postwar world are beginning to take shape. The current of thought is beginning to move-slowly, heavily, quakingly-as ice breaks up in the northern rivers under the first warm winds of spring. The news of the postwar world was once news of planners, politicians, theoreticians. It is becoming news of the hopes of plain people all over the globe...
Regimental adjutant will be Class Major Stuart McCarty '44, with Cadet Captain Thomas M. Stanton '44 and Cadet Sergeant Paul B. Akin '44 filling out the Regimental headquarters. Heading the First Battalion will be Cadet Major John E. Corrigan, Jr. '44, with Cadet Major William P. Slichter '44, in command of the Second Battalion...
...school dean, Justice Rutledge believed in humanizing the rules to give a worthy-looking student a degree, even if his grades were below standard. His view of the law is somewhat akin. He once said, "What good is the law unless it serves human needs...