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...their union republics, autonomous republics, provinces and national regions at the end of their session, they are a part of the vast official, governmental, administrative and bureaucratic apparatus that translates policy to the 170,126,000. Their Presidium of 37 members elected at a joint session is theoretically the highest executive organ of State power, the interpreter of laws, donor of decorations, holder of the right of pardon. They form into the body of soviet law measures initiated, approved, determined by the Communist Party-though Party decrees are theoretically binding only on Party members. They are the shadow...
...damned it for over-emphasis on detail and chronology, for its failure to treat the Fine Arts as one of the humanities, and above all for its utter lack of an integrated educational policy. Daring for the first time to criticize a department, the Council has fulfilled its highest function of canalizing student opinion and supporting it with careful research. And it has asked for the reinstatement of Robin Feild...
...President offhandedly announced that the Navy's highest officer, Chief of Operations William Daniel Leahy, who is to retire soon, will replace Governor Blanton Winship of Puerto Rico. "Winship's dismissal," Utah's Senator King called it. "Winship kicked out!" yelled newsboys in San Juan. Sixty-nine-year-old Governor Winship for a year has talked of quitting to live on his Major General's pension. Recently he has tiffed with his superior, Secretary Harold Ickes. Said Blanton Winship last week to the 1,700,000 Puerto Ricans whom he has ruled for five years...
...wounded were shot, 31.49% gassed, .26% bayonetted. Artillery fire caused 70% of the gunshot wounds (compared to artillery's 10% in the Civil War, when small arms caused 90% of wounds). As in all armies, the infantry in the World War had the highest casualty rate; aviation along with ordnance the lowest (only 8% of Air Corps personnel are pilots...
Nevertheless, the price of spot cotton last week was up to 9½?, highest level in nearly two years, and 1½? above the price of cotton for delivery after the new crop starts to move in August. The shortage has become so serious that the British spinners in Lancashire protested bitterly last March and the New York Cotton Exchange last week formally recognized the squeeze...