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Meanwhile it was believed that a special Faculty investigating committee was considering establishing the annual on a permanent basis. Provision to appoint a member of the Law School to the presidency of the album committee is the chief plank in their program...
Only one statesman has ever made the motor vehicle and everything connected with it a major plank in his political platform : Adolf Hitler. The Nazis have made almost a national festival out of Berlin's annual Automobile Show. Last week it opened with loud speakers boasting in every corner of the Fatherland that since the Führer took over the Government in 1933 the number of motorcars in Germany has increased from 548,700 to 1,108,500, motor trucks from...
Leftist Propaganda. Since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the Leftist Government has made it a point to defend, honor and employ the arts. A plank in any Socialist government's platform, this was especially urgent in a government working for dear life to form an army, educate a public, enlist foreign sympathies. During the first year of siege the Fifth Regiment in Madrid had the duty of packing off to Valencia the art treasures of the capital (TIME, Feb. 1, 1937).* Public statues, including Madrid's favorite, Cybele, the goddess with the civic crown...
Threatening their grail, they all knew without crusading Jimmy Stahlman telling them, was the American Newspaper Guild, freshly allied with C.I.O. In its annual convention in St. Louis last month, the Guild had nailed to its new platform a plank demanding a "Guild shop" (TIME, June 21). That meant that although an employer could still hire whatever news or editorial worker he wished, the Guild would insist that the worker join the Guild within 30 days thereafter. Anyone refusing to join should be summarily dismissed. To Guildsmen such a ukase was more than a shade removed from the closed shop...
...setback as a disciplinarian was in the Government mental hospital at Buffalo. w?here he was transferred as an attendant. Promoted to mess manager, he once kept the kitchen gang overtime to rewash greasy dishes. In playful revenge they dropped a blanket over his head, pounded him with a plank. The officer whom he asked to arrest them replied: "It will do you good, this is America." After delivering a strait-jacketed Negro to Mississippi authorities, he was picked to attend Officers' Training School in Georgia, where for the first time he found things a little more suggestive...