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...John L. Lewis is crouching vengefully behind him, ready to spring. Isolationist Lewis made a symbol of $1 a day when he won it for his miners last year, and if pro-war Phil Murray fails to get $1 a day for his steelmen, it will be a real handicap in his fight against the Lewis challenge to his leadership...
...Market Wise, with Basil James up: the 56th annual Suburban Handicap; defeating famed Whirlaway by three lengths; before a Memorial Day crowd of 52,000; at New York's Belmont Park. The day's pari-mutuel handle was $2,176,071, a world's record for one day's racetrack betting...
...After an undistinguished college tour . . . and with no talent except a genteel approach ... I began, in 1929, selling bonds, and then automobiles, to support two children, two cars and a two handicap at golf. At the sudden demise of the automobile business, I found that no one needed a vice president in charge of good will . . . but that there were thousands of good jobs for chaps who knew how to make something. A Navy commission or Government agency job only meant postponing the inevitable a few years . . . at which time the adjustment might be more difficult...
...school and college, "one is dealing with potential power, not developed capacity," President Conant noted the need to mold this material into its most effective shape. "If two years or more in college is of value to an officer, then the non-college man starts with a big handicap against him." Still, he pointed out, "education like all else must be refashioned quickly to confirm to the imperious needs of a desperate...
...handicap of WLB was that a policy had never been laid down. Its practice has been to handle each case according to its special features. Now the Board had to consider the relation of wage adjustments to the national economy...