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Hague Reprieved. For the first time in 100 years, New Jersey voters had a chance to get a new constitution, better than the old in two respects: it would have simplified state government and courts, would have made municipal officials subject to ouster if they refused to answer a legislative committee's questions. Jersey City's imperious Mayor Frank ("I am the law") Hague opposed it. So did the Roman Catholic priests (still smarting because there were no tax-supported busses to take children to parochial schools), the state C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. (because...
...same time, control of Stars & Stripes was shifted from the Army Service Forces to the politically wary Bureau of Public Relations. G.I. staffmen, already alarmed by the ouster of Colonel White for attempting to bring his G.I. readers a full budget of home-front news (TIME, July 17). wondered if the brass hats were taking over in force. But they could be sure of one thing: Captain Neville would fight his hardest to keep the Army paper free of brass-hat caution, full of G.I. flavor...
...with WLB's industry members because they followed democratic procedure-when outvoted, they accepted the majority decision. He insisted that his $600-million-a-year business, employing upwards of 60,000 workers, had nothing to do with the war effort. And, retelling the story of his widely-pictured ouster by two soldiers from Ward's Chicago plant, he made it clear that he had deliberately forced the eviction in order to dramatize his case. ("Thank heaven I did that! Because the damned photograph resulted...
...Bevan talked, Ernie Bevin restlessly shifted his weight, impatiently flung his farm-hardened hands about in gestures he had long used to brush aside opponents, soundlessly worked his pudgy lips. At the end there was no decision. The caucus chairman, indecisive Socialist Arthur Greenwood, was clearly afraid that the ouster would fail. And failure would have been equal to repudiation of Ernest Bevin, a serious thing on the eve of Britain's greatest war effort. The crisis was postponed. But it remained a crisis...
Captain Colman's ouster from the Army was ordered by Secretary of War Stimson, who was said to be outraged by the court-martial's cream-puff sentence. The ouster was made under Public Law 190, which authorizes "a more expeditious procedure to vitalize the active list." The procedure: a hearing before a board of five general officers. Colman's retired pay, fixed by law: $900 a year...