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...Philadelphia trooped 2,500 convention delegates of the Steelworkers Union, huffing, puffing and spoiling for an old-style knockdown, dragout strike against the steel companies. From Boss Phil Murray down, the unionists appeared fed up with seizure. They had not objected to it at first, when it seemed the quickest way to a big wage raise and the union shop. But expectation had turned to frustration as their collective bargaining demands bogged down in the court test of seizure's constitutionality...
...choice for impartial investigator of electoral conditions, the West named the U.N. ("the quickest and most practical course"). It would accept any other "precise and practical" alternative, but not the Big Four Commission vaguely proposed by the Russians. Such a body, said the West, would be "both judge and party," i.e., Russia would have a verdict-rigging veto...
Eddie Bursky will fill the 123-pound slot. Pickett has not thrown Captain Johnny Lee against tough competition so far, and is probably waiting until he reaches top shape. Last week, however, Lee scored the quickest fall of the meet, pinning his Cadet opponent in 54 seconds. Today he will wrestle at 130 pounds...
Frank Dewar at 137 looked impressive in his first-period win. Icko Iben, fast and experienced, followed with the quickest throw of the meet at 1:10 of the opening period...
Since the ultimatum to the Veterans' Administration did not specify what expenditures to curb, the V.A. heedlessly took the quickest and easiest action. This has led to no economy but to plenty of headaches. The V.A. functions to benefit veterans with an inexpensive education. Its staff is supposedly competent to handle all veterans' problems and it certainly could avoid such a costly internal blunder...