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...Membership, 120,000. Others: American Farm Bureau Federation, 2,950,000; National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, 800,000; National Cooperative Council, 1,500,000. *The Wallace Family still has a small interest in a firm for producing hybrid seed corn. Wallaces' Farmer and Iowa Homestead (whose poll last week showed Iowa farmers 34% for Roosevelt, 34% for Willkie, 32% undecided) passed out of the Wallace control early in the depression...
...Army conscription bill, after swaying all the way from outrage at the idea to enthusiastic acquiescence. Without proclaiming any further or special emergency, or going through tedious condemnation proceedings in the courts, the President can now "take immediate possession of any . . . plant or plants, and through the appropriate . . . bureau . . . of the Army or Navy . . . manufacture therein such product or material as may be required. . . ." He can either rent the seized plants or buy them, paying whatever he determines is "a fair and just price." Only important limitation is that he must first find (but prove only to himself) that...
...book, Fallen Bastions. Month later the Gestapo chased him out of Prague. This summer he lost another assignment. Russia's new, ironclad press censorship had made transmission of news no longer practicable, forced him to close down the New York Times's 18-year-old Moscow bureau. There are now no U. S. newspaper bureaus...
...Census Bureau announced that, on the basis of the latest figures available, 16,404,000 men from 21 to 35 will be required to register for the draft October...
Through the aid of the Phillips Brooks House Information Bureau many a wandering Freshman has been directed to such obscure Cambridge landmarks as Memorial Hall, the Biological Laboratories, or the Music Building. This service, which is performed annually by P.B.H., will continue until Tuesday, according to Ray Dennett, Secretary of the House...