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...Sidney Hillman has just been turned into a permanent union with contracts covering some 400,000 of textiles' estimated 1,200,000 workers. A. F. of L. proposes to put organizers, money and life into a presently feeble rival, has yet to do much about it. Their big battleground: the South. > Automobile manufacturing, where, as in textiles, A. F. of L. owes its foothold to an anemic minority which recently deserted C. I. O. The Federation's Homer Martin slightly bettered his position last week. Instead of dealing with neither union in plants where both claim bargaining rights...
...squad takes its first out-of-town trip this weekend with Dartmouth and Brown providing the opposition on Friday and Saturday respectively in Providence. On the following Friday, they tangle with the Holy Cross linksters at another neutral battleground--New Haven. The next day Yale and William will oppose the Crimson in a double bill in the morning and afternoon. Next, the boys will be on deck for the New England Intercollegiates at Oakley Country Club...
...biggest (3,275,000 sq. mi.) South American nation and potentially the greatest in reserves is Brazil. In recent years Brazil has become a commercial battleground between the U. S. and Nazi Germany, on which the stakes are trade and cultural supremacy. The U. S. might already have lost the war had it not been for a Brazilian campaign squabble in 1930. That fight ended in a revolutionary coup d'état by the two powerful leaders of the State of Rio Grande do Sul: dressy little Getulio Vargas and his backer and right-hand man, handsome, dashing Oswaldo...
...mustered altogether 4,000 U. S. citizens. Last September the Spanish Leftist Government disbanded it. Those who filed last week from the third-class gangplank of the Cunarder Ausonia to a Manhattan dock had left behind some 2,000 killed and missing, 250 captured at Belchite, Brunete, many another battleground. (Others are still in Spain or convalescing in France, and 870 veterans had already returned...
...Gendarmes were called out to handle 2,000 people who tried to crash the gate. "The giants kneeled down and tried to frighten one another with grimaces, then rushed headlong at one another. . . . Legs and arms got so mixed that the field, strewn with wounded players, looked like a battleground after the charge...