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Last week 224 British peers and members of Parliament asked their Government to: 1) provide schools with religion instructors, 2) make religion an optional subject in teachers' colleges, 3) begin daily services in schools, 4) arrange for textbooks on religion, 5) appoint Government inspectors of religion. -Said these signatories: "The present struggle is clearly one between a regime embracing a crude and reactionary paganism, finding expression in material force and destroying truth, freedom and justice wherever its impact is felt, and ourselves and those who have the declared purpose of establishing these more firmly in the common life...
Other members: Secretary of State Cordell Hull (see col. 2), Henry Morgenthau (Treasury), Henry L. Stimson (War), Frank Knox (Navy), Claude Wickard (Agriculture), Jesse H. Jones (Commerce) and the Attorney General of the United States (when that vacancy is filled). Henry Wallace will appoint an executive director to assist him, was expected to name 44-year-old Winfield William Riefler, New Deal economist, a professor at Princeton University since...
...Brains, as in any other war, the toughest wins. Today more career men have high posts in the State Department than at any other time in U.S. history. Franklin Roosevelt was the first President in many years to appoint a career man as an Ambassador (William Phillips to Rome). Another of his appointees, Sumner Welles, is one of the very few career men ever to become Under Secretary of State, and as matters now stand may eventually become Secretary...
...stop the flooding tide of public, parliamentary and press criticism of the efficiency of the Government's production machinery. Winston Churchill last week cast himself in the role of Canute. In less than an hour and a half he raced through an 80-page speech want the Government to appoint a supreme Minister of Production, Churchill put two questions: Who would be big enough to take the job? What could such a minister do that was not already being done by Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook, Aircraft Production Minister Lieut. Colonel J. C. T. Moore-Brabazon, the supply departments...
Jack Kelly seized the job with both hands. This week he opened Physical Training headquarters in Philadelphia, announced that he would appoint a woman to toughen U.S. women, would enlist prominent athletes (e.g., Jack Dempsey, Tom Harmon) "to help teach the men and women of America to be strong." He plans to start a toughening-for-defense school in every village, town and city; to organize hiking clubs, calisthenics clubs, softball and soccer clubs, swimming clubs, skating clubs; to open Government clinics to diagnose citizens' physical weaknesses...