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...release of 75 more destroyers, a deal to turn over to England a large proportion of the U. S. merchant marine, an assembly plant to turn out standardized ships for Britain in wholesale quantities, the repeal of the Neutrality Act, the repeal of the Johnson Act (prohibiting loans to govern ments in default on World War I debts). In official circles, outright repeal of the Johnson Act or a scheme for circumventing it was freely prophesied. The raid which gutted Coventry, one centre of the British aircraft industry, started speculation as to whether the President would change his "rule...
...inquiry is a privilege which extends to himself as well as to members of the faculty. If academic freedom has come to have a meaning for the enlightened student, which it has, and if he has adopted it as the principle which he would like to have govern his relations with the university, then no definition of terms from above can deprive him of the conviction that this limited concept be extended to apply to his own case, as well as to that of the faculty...
...Acquainted Congress with his National Defense Advisory Commission's rules to govern defense contracts. Point No. 1: speed first, price & profit second. Point No. 2: Labor is to keep its wage rates, hours standards, overtime...
Toyohiko Kagawa, Japan's No. 1 Japanese Christian, has shown no itch to become a martyr by protesting his Govern ment's drive against Christianity in Japan (TIME, Sept. 9), but nonetheless news last week leaked from Japan: last month Japanese police pounced on Christian Kagawa, jailed him in the best Martin Niemöller style...
Last week, Frederick Osborn started a new job: $1-a-year population consultant for the Division of Statistical Standards. In Washington, his work will consist of determining the effect of such govern mental innovations as Rural Resettlement, TVA. First problem: Do improved en vironments stimulate birth rates...