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...social betterment. Today the Crimson supports the New Deal, foreshadowed by the Wilsonian program and so similar in its aims and accomplishments. The greatest good for the greatest number, though it may require the abandonment of American "rugged individualism," though some traditions are swept away and some groups hard-hit, though the activities and power of the people's government are extended, is our goal. So long as the New Deal is the best way to achieve this goal, the Crimson will support...
Although the hard-hit third year class will be unable to take part in the fictitious case which, in the past, has been presented in mock trial, the first and second year preliminary competitions will take place as usual...
Last week Editor & Publisher documented this pinch: U.S. journalism has contributed 21,000-odd employes to the war effort (the great bulk of these to the armed forces). Hardest-hit are mechanical departments (5,046 employes). And unlike editorial departments (almost as hard-hit, with 4,333 employes in service), skilled newspaper mechanics are not easy to replace with women...
Afterward, General Brereton returned to New Delhi and the high-ceilinged hotel rooms where he transacts these days some of the most important business of World War II. He talked with officers, just back from hard-hit Burma, where he had sent them to study at first hand the sore need for air defense. In this same week, he flew across Rajputana to Karachi, India's great northern port on the Arabian Sea. He flew to southern India. He saw the signs of a vast job quickly done, but not yet completed: U.S. planes, pilots, crews, airdrome ground forces...
Next day British reconnaissance planes impudently took low-altitude photographs of the ruins. The photographs showed heavy damage all over the Renault plant. Especially hard-hit were the tank assembly shops (microscopic scrutiny of the pictures disclosed wrecked tanks inside), the main gas tank, the power station. The only unscathed sections were the tire-making shop, which was not in the target area, and the Diesel assembly shop...