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Before the Eastern Presidents' Conference started after such rules last week, Martin Withington Clement, Pennsylvania R.R. boss, was on the trail. Two years ago he won repeal of a Pennsylvania law which put an extra brakeman on every passenger train of more than five cars, every freight over 50 cars. Clement knows the chances of avoiding at least a small pay raise this year are slim. But he also knows a good shakedown of the rules might save the roads enough to pay whatever increase is granted...
...Clement used good timing in picking his fight. In the "unlimited national emergency," an already bad manpower situation will get worse. Thus neither Government nor public will sympathize with a railroad worker whose union rules require him to stay home four to five days a week...
Once Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes found a patient reading up on his disease. "Look out!" warned the doctor, "or you'll die of a misprint some day." Last week, to replace old-fashioned medical "encyclopedias," a group of eminent physicians, headed by Stomach Specialist Walter Clement Alvarez of the Mayo Clinic, published a series of little books (Help Your Doctor to Help You; Harper; 95?) on five diseases (twelve more are coming). The books, which were displayed for the first time at the College of Physicians meeting in Boston, are for popular consumption, are supposed to contain no medical...
Captain Francis Clement Powers of the twice-beaten Ulenmen, long known around the Holyoke Street baths as "The Pro" definitely earned his old handle and as an added attraction established himself among the nation's top trio of collegiate middle distance swimmers as a result of his two upset victories last week over Yale's great sprinter, Howie Johnson...
...agreed on one point-Hitler must be liquidated before British capitalism, but not long before. Says soft-spoken Party Leader Clement Attlee: "Nazi aggression must be stopped, but something more is needed. . . . War is the result of an anarchic world system. Unless we can change that system, war will continue." British labor's work chart for changing the system and bringing in the New Order: 1) No dictated peace; 2) a federated Europe; 3) an international socialist super-government backed up by a super-police; 4) "Bold economic planning on a worldwide scale...