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...Department coaxed $1,517,850 from Congress to establish new R. O. T. C. units in high schools and colleges. Concentrating on high schools, it has made the greatest headway in Chicago, which today has some 30 junior units in public schools. But in a score of other places the War Department has been rebuffed. Last week it was smartly slapped by an 82-year-old woman in Kenosha...
...have been a sounding board from which President Bose and others could make an all-India issue of the action of the British governors in using their veto power. "King George has no such veto!" stormed a few Congress spokesmen truthfully enough, but the issue made little headway. Most of the 200,000 sojourners in Congress City were too busy playing politics to be bothered with a big issue...
...Henderson of the C. I. O. Cannery Workers, who flew from Washington to take charge. For by this time it was apparent that the piddling pecan strike would probably turn out to be a C. I. O. showdown in Texas, where John L. Lewis has yet to make much headway...
...last week, fishermen put out in a small boat into Topsail Inlet, a cove varying in width from 1,300 yards to a mile, surrounded by flat, marshy, wind-raked country. Some distance offshore they came on a school of fatbacks so dense that their boat could make no headway. One fisherman plunged an oar into the writhing mass, and as far down as he could reach felt fish. The boat turned back. An onshore wind drove the fish, alive and dead, onto surrounding beaches, until fishermen estimated $300,000 worth had been killed. A. W. King, 65-year...
...like men of intelligence before real progress can be made. ... Is Government then prepared to join with business and labor and say in all frankness, 'Well, we haven't cared much for one member of this group, but after all, we haven't made much headway by fighting. The situation is grave and we need most of all to forgive and forget on all sides.' The times call for what might be termed a coalition government...