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...report of Navy Secretary Frank Knox (TIME, Dec. 22) had been reassuring in the frankness of its admission that the U.S. forces in Honolulu were "not on the alert." Next President Roosevelt appointed a five-man board to investigate the Pearl Harbor debacle. To head the board he named Owen Josephus Roberts, 66, Associate Supreme Court Justice, last survivor of the Old Court, a broad-shouldered, broad-gauge jurist who first won national fame by his Teapot Dome prosecution...
...bloc Congressmen wanted the figure raised to 120%. Because it provided for no wage controls, right-wing Congressmen thought they saw a New Deal plot to squeeze manufacturers. Republicans and conservative Democrats alike objected to putting control in Leon's New Dealish hands, wanted to create instead a five-man board...
Executive of this Inter-Continental Congress might be a five-man board, might be a single chairman: President Roosevelt or Prime Minister Churchill. Clarence Streit likes the idea of two men, like Roman consuls, and names them: Roosevelt and Churchill...
From Vichy last week came news that Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain was moving ever closer toward the "collaboration" that Adolf Hitler wants. The Marshal appointed a new Ministry in which the name of no enemy of collaboration appeared, a new five-man Cabinet top-heavy with portfolios for the man who has taken over the task of arranging collaboration, Admiral Jean François Darlan. The Admiral is now Premier, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Minister of the Navy, Minister of the Interior, and the Marshal's designated successor...
...great deal of the time Harvard tried to use its five-man forcing tactics, but the Yale coach, Murray Murdock, apparently found the answer to this form of attack, with the Eli forward lines proving dangerous on breakaways with the Crimson defensemen caught up inside their opponents' blue lines...