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Scandinavia. When the first peace rumors ran from house to house in Stockholm, Swedish families and societies planned festivities. The Swedish Government was delighted to escape from its squeeze between the upper millstone of threatened Allied intervention and the nether-threat of German reprisal for permitting it. Norway and Denmark were likewise relieved. The Copenhagen Politiken, splashing the first news on yellow handbills which were joyfully snatched by gasping passersby, commented: "Happiness will be felt all over the North that the final outcome of suspense was a message of peace...
...their private brand of internal politics, Army men are taught to expect at least a show of decent order at the top. The indecent disorder at the top of the War Department improved neither their morale nor their respect for civilian democracy. Two years between his upper and nether bosses brought Chief of Staff Malin Craig near to distraction and collapse before he got out last June and turned his cross over to brilliant, patient General George Catlett Marshall...
Whatever it may be in the theories of the President and his Fellows, Harvard is in fact an oligarchy. By the common practice at the nation's oldest university, matters of policy are settled at the top, and any voice which is suffered from the nether reaches of the faculty or the administration is in practice limited to an advisory function. This is true in the central governing body of the University; it is true within each separate department. It holds in general for most decisions on policy; it holds in particular for decisions on appointment and tenure...
...spoke first, urged monetary aid to Jewish refugees, warned that Americans must soberly face the possibility of a future war, and said in conclusion, "We have no right . . . to allow the present worth and the future promise of democratic society to be ground to dust between the upper and nether millstones which may well start turning in Europe...
...messenger boys. Luther Wallin, of Earle, Ark., prudently closed down his sawmills there and at Columbus, Miss. In low-wage Puerto Rico, employers planned to lay off 120,000 of the island's 420,000 workers, hiking the numbers of unemployed to 350,000. Thus did the nether ends of industry fit themselves last week to the second attempt of the New Deal to put "a floor for wages, a ceiling for hours." Into effect at 12:01 a.m., October 24, went the Federal Fair Labor Standards...