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...Protestant protests continued to rise across the land. Letters and telegrams to the White House last week were running 6 to 1 against the nomination. One Protestant leader revealed that Truman had offered him the ambassadorship last January. "I declined and advised against it," said Charles P. Taft of Cincinnati, brother of Senator Robert A. Taft and a board member of the National Council of Churches...
...After looking into their library records, Librarian Wyman W. Parker found that University of Cincinnati students took out an average of only 5.6 unassigned books last year, and compared today's reading habits with those of another student whose library record he had checked up on: Ohio's Rutherford B. Hayes, 19 President of the U.S., who signed out 36 outside books a year during his four years at Kenyon College (1838-42). ¶Said Harold Taylor, president of Sarah Lawrence College: "I don't blame youth for its present moral confusion as much...
...dollar, and swamped the market. For five years, machine-tool production slumped. Thus, when the Korean war broke, producers were deluged with orders for replacement tools as well as for the new types needed for the weapons of modern warfare. Typical is the case of the Cincinnati Milling Machine Corp., biggest U.S. toolmaker. Says President Frederick V. Geier: "When we should be devoting most of our talents to making the complex special-purpose tools that are required for our fantastic new weapons, two-thirds of our energy is being devoted to turning out catalogue [standard] items...
...Chicago, Kansas, Minnesota, Iowa, Northwestern, Illinois, Illinois Institute of Technology, Indiana, Purdue, Cincinnati, Michigan State, Wisconsin, Wayne, and Notre Dame...
Said he, before the American Ordnance Association in Cincinnati last week: "The current emergency is again being met with emergency measures which are exorbitant in cost, disruptive to the civilian economy and may not be adequate in time." There is no virtue, he believes, in desperately mobilizing whenever war threatens, desperately reconverting when peace sets in. Then Engine Charlie advanced his own simple, horse-sensible plan. Its basis: "dual-purpose plants." These plants would be capable of producing either arms or civilian goods alone or a combination of both...