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Whatever the reason, Democrats were quick to capitalize when 18 papers, including the Detroit Free Press, the Chicago Times, Manhattan's Post and PM offered both parties space to continue their raucous ruckus. The Democrats accepted with loud alacrity; the Republicans said they had not decided whether to reopen the battle...
...Ottawa Journal editorial reviewed the ruckus over a recent speech on Empire policy by Lord Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S., and came up with a refreshing commentary on pundits v. people. Said the Journal...
...Rickey had come to Brooklyn to win ball games. He could not let the ruckus at the rear confuse the front line. Dodger veterans that were haloed for Brooklynites were just too old for Rickey. Of the National League's 24 ten-year men, Brooklyn owned eight (St. Louis: none). Good major-league clubs had a 26-year average; Brooklyn averaged 32. So the captains and the kings departed. Rickey had little left, but at least what remained was no longer "dangerous."* He had broken ground for a typical Rickey machine. Ingredients: youth, sweat, audacity...
Anxious whites were relieved to learn that the ruckus was no native uprising but a peaceful "march-to-work" protest against a one-penny (2?) hike in bus fares. Owners of the private bus fleet from Alexandria, ten miles north of Johannesburg and home of many of the city's Negro day laborers, pleaded greater costs, upped the one-way fare from four-to fivepence; a total of twopence a day. Negroes, earning from $12 to $20 monthly, had boycotted the busses...
Official reason for the disbanding: quarrels between the unit's nationals. Real reason: both the Army and State Department were sick of the political ruckus. As of last week, Otto of Habsburg, 30, unmarried, resident of the U.S. since 1940, registered with his Manhattan draft board by the imperial title, "Otto of Austria," was still awaiting induction...