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WASHINGTON, Dec. 3--Recommendations to defer all college and graduate school students indefinitely may soon go to Selective Service Headquarters, the CRIMSON learned today...
...some 25,000 members of the American Union of Telephone Workers, a CIO affiliate. After the union threatened to strike this week if their demands are not met. President Truman took over the industry under the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. Appointment of the fact-finding board will defer strike action until a report is made...
...Washington, U.S. and British experts were discussing ways & means of boosting Ruhr coal production. The Brit ish seemed willing to defer, in the interest of immediate full production, their plan to socialize the Ruhr. In return they wanted a reduction in their share of the occupation bill. Ruhr production cannot be boosted until the Ruhr gets more food, housing, mining equipment, freight cars and locomotives. The British, who have spent 11% of their U.S. loan on German occupation costs, want a better deal than the 50-50 agreement with the U.S. on the cost of running western Germany...
Emphasizing the fact that there are few students who fall into the needy category, as interpreted by the Bursar, the administrative spokesman stated that only the veterans who have absolutely no other means than checks yet to be received are concerned. They will be allowed to defer payment of the current bill to the first of the month of the issuance of the next bill, February...
Last week, ripe for a showdown, New York's Selective Service Director, Colonel Arthur V. McDermott, demanded that the U.S. Attorney in Brooklyn start proceedings to get Fishgold his job on a permanent basis. He snorted that local draft boards "are certainly not going to defer able-bodied young men under 30 upon the theory that they are irreplaceable when, at the same time, the shipyard in which they are employed is. denying work to equally skilled men who are honorably-discharged veterans because of lack of union seniority...