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...Washington, John Lewis stalked into the Statler Hotel room where the mine operators were conferring, slammed down his brief case and barked: "Gentlemen, you have had plenty of time to confer, and I suppose you are ready to sign a contract. You are familiar with the War Labor Board proposal, which we accept, but we want $2 a day additional, as we originally requested. [Pause] And I do not want any one-legged counter proposals from you!" At midnight the miners struck...
Many other foreigners are fighting America's battles in this war; some are technically Axis citizens and liable to be shot as traitors if captured. For their theoretical protection and reward the Army started last week to confer citizenship on men in the European Theater. Requirements: a soldier must i) be serving honorably in the armed forces; 2) have lawfully entered the U.S. beforehand; 3) produce two uniformed citizens, officers or noncoms, to vouch...
Home from China to confer with their Commander in Chief were Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell and Major General Claire L. Chennault. Straightway, the shrewdest Flying Tiger of them all got the General William L. Mitchell Air Trophy to show to his wife and eight kids (one serving on land, two at sea, three in the air). To "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell came a bid from his Peking-born daughter, Alison, 22, to her New York show of ink paintings in the Chinese style...
...being illegally detained by the Viceroy's Government. Reason: Rule No. 26, of the Defence of India Act, under which the Congress leaders were arrested and have been held without trial since last August, was invalid because "it went beyond the powers which the Legislature thought fit to confer on the Central Government...
...began in North Africa last week. In the preliminaries, the Fighting French were represented by able General Georges Catroux, commander in Syria and Lebanon. But De Gaulle, the Fighting French leader, announced in a broadcast to Occupied France that he himself would soon leave London to meet and confer with that "great soldier and noble figure," General Henri Honore Giraud. Together, said De Gaulle, "we will seek and find means of assuring that the French Empire shall be one Empire, that French strength shall be one strength, and the voice of all patriotic Frenchmen shall be one voice...