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...Drolet pointed out that our t.b. rate rose after our entry into World War I, that it is now rising in other war-stricken countries. In Glasgow, he said, the deaths from t.b. jumped from 960 in 1938 to an estimated 1,342 in 1941; in Hong Kong they went from...
Jock McGovern, a former plumber who represents Clydeside ship workers of Glasgow, is as unreconstructed a Socialist as ever caused conservatives to wince at his bad manners. He is no scholar-&-gentleman leftist like Economist Harold Laski, who recently, and politely, observed: ". . . we must begin a revolution by consent now or we shall get a revolution by violence after the war." But Jock McGovern would endorse this statement with the addition of a little invective...
Some 60,000 of Glasgow's Clydeside ship yard workers went on strike last week despite the pleas of their union, the laws of their Government. It was only a 30-minute strike. But it was the first of a threatened series of "token" strikes brought on by the failure of the Engineering Union to speed up negotiations for higher wages...
...world's great scholars met last week to celebrate the 50th birthday of one of the western world's youngest and most vigorous great universities. The University of Chicago could hardly match the ancient names and traditions of learning represented by its guests from Cambridge, Oxford, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Dublin, Edinburgh. But the delegates had come to honor not age but youth. At lusty Chicago they found the civilized spirit still green and hopeful...
...ages. It would set the cause of emancipation of women back 500 years." Wrote scholarly Columnist Arthur Krock in the New York Times: "It puts a premium on divorce, celibacy, a lower birth rate and a mercenary attitude toward the estate of marriage." Wrote 76-year-old Arthur Graham Glasgow, noted gas technologist, in a letter to the New York Times: "Such discrimination is immoral as well as unmoral, for it allots a premium ... to living...