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West Virginia. Last week, John Lewis' United Mine Workers, a potent factor in all West Virginia elections, withheld endorsement of either Democratic Senator Harley Martin Kilgore (who expected U.M.W. support) or peppery, 42-year-old Navy Veteran Tom Sweeney of Wheeling. Harley Kilgore was worried not so much by absence of the miners' blessing as by absence of miners' meat. Smart, energetic Tom Sweeney figured that his chances had risen from 50-to-50 to 52-to-48. The prospect: a hard-run race...
...factors should combine to make the team which takes the field tomorrow a far better outfit than that which started against WPI last week. New players, reporting at every practice, have added reserve strength and potential starters to the candidates for each position; likewise, this week's practice has ironed out much of the poor passing which was a large factor in the failure to defeat...
Since becoming Master of Balliol College, Oxford University, in 1924, Lord Lindsay has been active in turning the interest of young British scholars from the problems of the Empire to social problems, a contributing factor to the rise of the Labor Party to power, since Balliol, more than any other college in England, has been sending men to the top posts in the government from the time of the Victorian...
...lucrative European air market. As has been too often the case in our domestic history, the realities of profit and loss statements have now been substituted for moral value in our present foreign policy. Only in those instances where the prospect of capital gain has not been a factor has our policy towards Franco been uncompromising. Such a case arose at Lake Success last week when the United States joined with the other nations at the conference in refusing permission for Spain to participate in international control of narcotics. John G. Winant, American representative to the meetings, who voted...
Distance was not the only factor which insulated many businessmen against belief in a bear market and the business slump it presaged. The volume of retail trade was also good insulation. Throughout the U.S., retail trade was 30 to 35% above a year ago; retail profits were even higher. Last week Sewell Avery's Montgomery Ward reported $20,558,000 net profit for the six months ending July-nearly three times as much as a year ago. There was other insulation: Bror Dahlberg's Celotex Corp. (wall board, asphalt and gypsum products) piled up profits...