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Just before he went on vacation last week, President Roosevelt gingerly stuck a cork in his most explosive problem. The problem : the rising number of labor disputes and stoppages in defense work-and the rising protest over them...
...coming of the first real spring day of the season yesterday brought both the Varsity and Freshman tennis teams out of the Indoor Athletic Building and onto the special cork courts at Jarvis Field...
...merely ask a question suggested by three facts recited under National Affairs in your Feb. 17 issue. How will we be able to restore prosperity when the President wears a hat for twelve years, Tommy "The Cork" an overcoat for nine years and our new Ambassador to Britain owns no good shirts...
...Kwangtung supply line, which the Japanese last week tried to cork up, is no single bombable pathway like the Burma Road. Instead, machinery, materiel and munitions are landed from junks or freighters on beaches at minor ports anywhere along the coast in small shipments, proceed inland through the countryside by a kind of osmosis, in carts or slung on bamboo poles between two coolies. Not until they are well away from the coast are supplies concentrated along the Hengyang (southern Hunan) Railroad that takes them upcountry...
...William O. Douglas, Felix Frankfurter, William Bullitt, Robert H. Jackson, Samuel I. Rosenman, and the other "brain guys"-pass unrecognized on any streets but Washington's. The views of each of these Presidential advisers differ radically in practically every respect except devotion to the Boss. Berle and The Cork enthusiastically dislike each other; Hopkins has "stabbed" Corcoran so often that the Janizariat often wonders if there is a fresh spot left for the knife. What they all now think of Associate Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy could not be printed, although not many months ago they spread rumors that...