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Last week the President caused to be issued a crisp back-to-work order which was at the same time a threat: "If this order is not complied with in 48 hours, your Government will take the necessary steps. ..." No further step was necessary. By week's end all 17,000 striking miners were back to the mines...
Floyd Weaver kept strictly to his mission. Traveling through peanut-rich Crisp County (150 miles south of Atlanta), he offered remaining farm hands $30 to $40 a week; hinted about girls around Newark whose boy friends had gone into the Army. After a week he had rounded up ten Negroes. He sent for Harold G. Weston, the company's personnel manager...
...hills of Vermont, the grass s verdant and the air is crisp and cool. There is a college called Bennington. Every year several hundred young ladies attend this college, which is a famous place, because it is liberal and progressive, and does things which other girls' colleges never...
...these cool, verdant hills, where the air is crisp and forests are virgin, studying with the several hundred girls in this liberal and progressive college, there recently arrived a Harvard man, a fugitive from the Dramatic Club. One of ten kept men amongst several hundred beautiful women is Robert F. Keahey...
Behind the line Swede Anderson should continue to hit with crushing force; he has been throwing crisp and accurate blocks all fall, and should ably fill the shoes of George Heiden...