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...Franklin Roosevelt, absent only physically from this convention, as in 1940, was still undisputed master of the Democratic Party. With his support Henry Wallace might again have won the Vice Presidential nomination. But the President chose to buy party unity instead. He gave the go-ahead to unexciting Harry S. Truman of Missouri, whom none of the three factions could warm to-nor strenuously object to, either. The Vice-Presidency had more than Throttlebottom proportions this time: each delegate kept uppermost in mind that his choice for Vice President might become President...
...other union man went so far. But even in unions involved in strikes, leaders were careful to renew lip service to their "no strike" pledge, although their eyes sometimes gave the go-ahead wink to strikers. The 30.000 men (both A.F. of L. and C.I.O.) who shut down the Pacific Northwest's big lumber industry were not officially striking; they cynically called it "going fishing." And in one of the most costly strikes in the nation, a union took peculiar pride in the fact that its strike was "legal." Youthful (26) Chester Joseph Adamczyck put up posters showing that...
...broke a double-streamer expose of faulty ammunition manufacture at the Government's St. Louis Ordnance Plant (world's biggest for small-arms ammunition, operated by United States Cartridge Co.). The Star-Times had nailed down its charges with employes' affidavits, had Byron Price's go-ahead to print...
Last week, Interior Secretary Harold Ickes gave the go-ahead for a $1,400,000 drain project over three miles long, which he hopes will eventually free $200 million of water-covered zinc-lead and manganese ores.* The tunnels will tap 80 large workings, some 700 smaller mines and claims, and will drain off most of the ten billion gallons of water at a rate of nearly nine million gallons...
...dangers of passing such a bill now are very real. It would be the first concrete step taken by Congress in defining our post-war policy, and might be interpreted as a "go-ahead" sign for the embarking on the American Century, in which the United States would single-handedly dominate or at least exercise influence over all the nations of the world. Such a military training program might easily develop an army so large that the government would be tempted to use it not as a weapon of temporary expediency, but as a long-run substitute for mutual cooperation...