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Left, Right. But the depression called for different tactics. Lewis dreamed not just of one big union, but of one big Labor party. To get it, as well as to keep his grip on coal, he needed to organize steel and the mass-production industries. He wanted to promote "industrial democracy." He wanted a vast union, with low dues, with a vote for every worker...
...Flight Sergeant Ernest Salway, badly wounded, his parachute burned. Smith knew his parachute was built to carry 250 pounds, knew that two men with equipment weigh nearly twice as much. But, hoisting his wounded friend onto his back, he jumped. The chute snapped open, held-but Smith lost his grip on his friend, saw him plummet to his death. When Smith floated down to earth, he was taken prisoner. Last week, for a brave try that went wrong, the Air Ministry awarded him the Distinguished Flying Medal...
Spain's Nazi-loving Dictator Francisco Franco took a tighter grip on his war-scarred country last week. Before El Caudillo in Madrid's El Prado Palace stood four Roman Catholic prelates, the Bishops of Barcelona, Ciudad Real, Jaén and Salamanca. They were there to do what none of their predecessors had done since medieval days: take an oath of fealty to the head of the Spanish State...
With a great show of inflation-hating (and some pungent remarks on the obvious fact that inflation control is fast losing its grip), the electrical workers offered to be good boys until then-even though most of their contracts with over 800 war-busy electrical plants come up for negotiation this month. But, in terms of dollars & cents, the offer was really a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose proposition...
...built to convey to Americans at home a graphic picture of what their boys on the fighting fronts were up against, of the weapons they were using, the combat tactics involved. The show took planes, tanks, ships, guns and submarines into action with an authenticity calculated to grip and instruct nonmilitary listeners. An understanding, restrained use of dramatic techniques, sounds and the special language of World War II gave The Man an impact rare in radio...