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...meeting in Algiers Generals de Gaulle and Giraud have each agreed to appoint two members of a nine-man central French authority to be used as the framework for uniting divergent French forces inside & outside metropolitan France. These six will name three other members, and this group, over which De Gaulle and Giraud will preside alternately, will organize a consultative council and form a provisional government to be dissolved after France is liberated...
With Williams coming to town this Saturday, Barnaby will have a strong team to send out. Tentatively a nine-man match, Orr, Felt, and Sears will occupy the first three spots, followed by Wally MacDonald, Tom Baker, Dudley Palmer, George Clay, and David Shepherd in that order, with the ninth place as yet in the air. Shepherd, playing number eight, is the first Freshman to crash the Varsity squash lineup...
...Guts. This set stockholders boiling again. Scrapper Norman shouted that they "wanted some directors with guts who would fight the SEC." Another proposed to pitch out the present nine-man board of directors, put in three management men, three preferred stockholders, three common shareholders. President Murphy called this "an excellent idea," but out of order unless names were submitted in advance. Then over-zealous Okin grabbed the floor again, harangued for over an hour. The shareholders listened at first, then heckled him, hooted him, finally shouted him down...
WPBoss Donald Nelson set up a Food Requirements Committee, put the energetic, ambitious Wickard in charge, gave a nine-man board his blessing and fiat to assess civilian, military and foreign food needs and to control crop plantings to meet those requirements. Nelson cagily kept two checks & balances: as head of the vast production-supply agency, he will O.K. the committee's moves; food-rationing powers remain in the hands of OPA's Henderson...
...Manpower Commission was to be a nine-man board, to include the Secretaries of War, Navy, Agriculture & Labor, WPB Chairman Nelson, representatives of the labor-production division of WPB, the Selective Service system, the Civil Service Commission. In all matters of manpower these mighty ones were directed to defer to Chairman McNutt...