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Loosening Grip. Meanwhile veterans looked over their chance of getting out-not soon...
...Army was gradually loosening its grip. The way it stood last week, Army enlisted men (with a few exceptions among needed special technicians) could get out if they had 80 points (WACs, 41 points) as of Sept. 2, 1945; if they were 38 years or over; if they were 35-37 and had a minimum of two years of honorable service. Officers, hitherto excluded from the general point system of release, will get out only if they have the following score: warrant officer, flight officer-80 points; second lieutenant to captain-85; major to colonel-100. Generals...
California remembers him best as one of its great reform governors. To win that office (in 1910) he smashed the grip which the Southern Pacific had long held on California politics. After his victory, his father, the railroad's attorney, refused to speak to him for ten years. Hi Johnson, the rebel, went on to establish workmen's compensation, woman suffrage, the initiative, referendum and recall. In 1912 he entered national politics when he bolted the G.O.P. with Teddy Roosevelt...
...Frazer. Detroit's automen smiled at this. Normally, it takes them 18 months to translate blueprints into a car. Nor were they worried by Kaiser's invasion of their bailiwick. Some of them already have their own West Coast assembly plants, all of them have a solid grip on the market. If Kaiser sells in the East, as he plans, he will be up against a $175 freight charge tacked to the price Of his car. Thus, old line automen may get their first competition not from the Kaiser but from the Frazer. Reason: the Frazer, which will...
...Elsie F. Johnson. Snapped she: "This country is in the grip of a gigantic conspiracy...