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...enlisted the help of two potent Democrats, National Chairman Robert E. Hannegan and Vice Presidential Nominee Harry Truman, both of whom are from Missouri, and both now very close to Franklin Roosevelt. Neither had to be shown that Bennett Clark was in deep trouble. Their aid was of no avail. In last week's primary Bennett Clark was snowed under. Reasons: 1) his own soggy inertia-he neglected his mail, several times stood up audiences that had come to hear him; 2) the opposition of C.I.O.'s Political Action Committee; 3) the aggressive campaign waged at every creek...
Slacks and shorts, not long ago a real menace, must go, says the students Government. And clothing is to be applied "mere fully". "Lounging too, is taboo, and dire tidings avail those who cannot resist the temptation to smear the face which should be all earn lectures...
...what he termed clerical fascism and bureaucracy in this country. The British system of selecting children and training them from youth to hold positions in government, was also upheld by him, in contrast to this country's policy of supplying such training in colleges for those who wish to avail themselves of it. He did not specify whether this selection was to be based upon intelligence or caste...
...Since 1927 the U.S. Government has spent well over a billion dollars and states have spent hundreds of millions more on dams, levees and river channel dredging. But it has all been of doubtful avail: last spring one of the most destructive floods in U.S. history devastated parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Many engineers and soil conservationists now believe that the attempt to control the Mississippi and tributaries by big dams is futile. They favor stopping floods at their source by means of many small catch basins in the feeder streams. Because the Jackson model includes all the sources...
Would they care at all that we struggle with the Navy red tape? Would they care that we try and try but still our efforts seem of no avail when we sit in class and try and try to figure pay accounts or balance our books? Or would they be more interested in other phases of the never ending Battle of Briggs...