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...special attainments, e.g., compositions on Red heroes, the pioneer gets a Bewährungstuch (merit scarf); after that, he is eligible for the red scarf and white blouse that signify full-fledged membership. All of the pioneers get chances to march with banners and standards in Red mass rallies. After such parades, they can be heard telling each other "Das war Spass, nicht? [That was fun, wasn...
Emory Holt, an engineer officer in the merchant marine, had met and married pretty, dark-haired Norma Bew six years before. Emory liked chess and classical music; Norma liked men and gaiety. In the Manhattan camera company where she worked, she had met young and handsome David Whittaker. When Emory got back from one of his voyages, he found Norma changed. With a seagoing officer's methodical care, he noted her behavior in his "log"-when she came home nights (0230); her condition (drunk, smeared lipstick). He hired a private detective, whose reports confirmed his fears. He noted that...
...know how much its teaching has been liberalized in recent years. Most departments keep well up on civilian programs in teaching, make many innovations of their own. The out standing example is the department of economics, government and history, headed by brilliant Colonel Herman Beukema (pronounced Bew'-kuma). In the touchy field of international relations, he encourages both instructors and students to speak their opinions freely. His textbooks are kept so thoroughly updated that the new est (covering events up to January 1, 1945) are still unbound...
Those who have had business abroad (Herbert Lehman's OFRR, Nelson Rockefeller's OCIAA, Elmer Davis' OWI) have slowly, painfully learned that all foreign business must funnel through the State Department. The hard-to-handle exception was Henry Wallace's Board of Economic Warfare. When BEW was scrapped by Executive Order, Secretary Hull promptly stepped up and claimed the scrap pile...
...outraged them already. Out with Wallace went his executive director Milo Perkins, an Administration stalwart, inventor of the famed New Deal food-stamp plan. If Perkins' firing had not been a certainty before, it became definite last week when he made a pep talk to 1,700 BEW employes and one uninvited reporter (Virginia Pasley, of the Washington Times-Herald). Henry Wallace kept mum and tended the corn in his Washington victory garden. But Milo Perkins told the BEW workers that Mr. Wallace's attack on Jones was what "any red-blooded American" would do when he turned...