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...study the pros & cons of new steel capacity. On the spot was Defense Priorities Commissioner Ed Stettinius, who is trying as hard as any other businessman to get along with the New Deal. Last week, as a gesture toward the wishes of his steelmaking friends, he appointed a five-man steel priorities board-the first step toward rationing in steel. But as though he wished also to placate the New Dealers, he named as its chairman no tough-minded steelman, but a college president-Dartmouth's Ernest Martin Hopkins...
Blonde, blue-eyed Mary Lee Abbott, 19, 5 ft. 2, won the award of a five-man jury (including James Montgomery Flagg) as the most glamorous debutante of Manhattan's 1940-41 season, thus taking a long lead over all contenders for the title left vacant when Socialite Josephine Johnson got engaged last summer...
Through the sandy, slash-pine country of southwestern Georgia last week rolled a brand-new U. S. Army truck and trailer. At crossroads, along the main streets of dusty little towns, its five-man crew went to work. Their job was to get recruits. Atop the trailer a loudspeaker barked a persuasive sales talk. Inside there were movies of Army life, three desks for interviewing applicants. It was the first of 18 rolling recruiting stations designed by the Army for its nine Corps areas...
...Liberals were firm. Labor, with its 164 votes, though it could not command a majority, could write its own ticket with all Britain demanding national unity. And Labor, meeting in a Party conference at Bournemouth, knew exactly what it wanted: Churchill as Prime Minister, its two leaders in a five-man War Cabinet, Sir John Simon and Sir Samuel Hoare out of the Government...
Action was wanted in France, and so the Daladier Cabinet fell (see col. 2). Action was wanted in Britain, and the press put increasing pressure on Prime Minister Chamberlain to form a five-man War Cabinet, with Activist Winston Churchill as lord of land, sea and air forces (see p.22). The Allies were apparently coming to the conclusion that a war of "limited liability" had become a liability. If the next move were up to them; which...