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Squelched last week by Secretaries Stimson and Knox were church-backed bills to prohibit liquor sales near Army and Navy centers...
...deadline, Editor Doster remade his paper, slapped together a rough-house satire on censorship in general. Private Buford Carter, one of the News's self-trained staff artists, drew a lush nude, crossed out her mouth, breasts, belly and calves, and captioned it: SORRY, GANG- THE NEW REGULATIONS PROHIBIT THE PUBLICATION OF PICTURES OF EQUIPMENT...
Many big manufacturers, enjoying their first real business in ten years, are reluctant to share it. Furthermore, Navy and Army contracts hold the prime contractor responsible for quality and delivery dates, and in some cases prohibit subcontracting. In case of a mishap in subcontracting, DCS can take no responsibility. Moreover, many potential subcontractors are as fiercely independent as they are small, hate to take orders secondhand...
Citing a recent decision by a meeting of House Masters to prohibit paying more than $800 for a dance band at any Harvard dance and the Student Council's steadfast refusal to increase the orchestra budget, Chairman Andrew Welch regarded an increase unlikely. "If we had the guarantee of as many Freshmen as necessary to meet the additional expense, it might be possible," Welch suggested. The Committee has already approached the Council and Dean Leighton with the problem, but with no success...
After considering the effects of conscription upon the students, the Conference approved a plan to prohibit the drafting of undergraduates until the end of the academic year. Jack McMichael, chairman of the American Youth Congress, called for "more scholarships, not more battleships" and asked that students organize, as in England, to defer their conscription into the Army until after graduation...