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...make the test rapidly effective, General Marshall wanted authority to rip away the red tape which hedges many an unqualified officer. By law, officers who are found unfit by reclassification ("B") boards may cling to a long and cumbersome appeal procedure before they are finally ousted. Congress last week was asked to cut this cackle, by giving final power to remove the unfit, without appeal or palaver, to a new board of five or more General Staff officers...
John Lewis' United Mine Workers long ago condemned Communism, despite pinkos and fellow travelers with whom Lewis once surrounded himself, some of whom still cling limpetlike to his coattails. More alarming is the strong position of Communism in the National Maritime Union, the Transport Workers Union, and the American Communications Association- key spots in any national emergency...
...Landscape Architect I have worked closely with different groups of architects over a wide area, and only recently have I found one who had any conception of the functions of the professional Landscape Architect. The great majority still cling to the fantastic notion that the primary work of such a man is to crowd shrubbery around the foundations of the buildings he has designed...
...pacifist, and I believe we may one day have to fight against Hitler or the system he has made. But if we must have ideals for which to fight let us not cling to the empty ones of warmongers or misdirected intellectuals. A future lies before us, if only we can open our eyes to it, in which men may lie sincerely and to the best of their ability...
...Miniature Speedway were newfangled rail-racing enthusiasts, competing in the first miniature rail-racing championship of the U. S. In rail-racing, far more exciting to watch, cars usually race in threes (against time) around a banked wooden oval, one-sixteenth of a mile in circumference. They cling to the oval's steel rails by means of ball-bearing rollers (attached to the front and rear axles), which fit under the rails' flanges...