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WASHINGTON--President Roosevelt, apparently postponing plans for a cabinet shakeup, has tentatively decided to attack the manpowere problem by retaining Paul V. McNutt as War Manpower Chief and granting him wider powers over the nation's human resources, well-informed officials said tonight...
Together with radical changes in the traditionally indifferent attitude of students must come a shakeup in the methods of organization and soliciting. Special ventures such as charging five ten-cent war stamps per head at House dances, or urging Coca-Cola to contribute ten cases of their product, and selling the bottles at ten cents in stamps at the fall balls, should become a frequent occurrence. The forth-coming door-to-door pledge drive must be complete and efficient, covering every room. If the present system of collection at House dining halls has proven itself the most effective, the salesmen...
Disaster. A previously inept politico, Franco demonstrated that the stress & strain of being dictator of a gaunt, proud land still in a state of civil war had taught him a few lessons. He canned both General Varela and Serrano in a Cabinet shakeup that became an international sensation...
Following the half-length upset which the third Varsity heavies administered to the Jayvees in Saturday's time trial, Coach Tom Bolles promised a shakeup of his lower two boats before this weekend, when the Jayvees will face Navy, Penn, and Teach...
...world's biggest newsgathering cooperative, Associated Press, threatened by anti-trust suits, has undergone major changes. Last week, under the long-suspicious eye of Thurman Arnold, A.P. liberalized itself in the first important by-law shakeup since 1928 (when voting control was taken out of the hands of the 173 members who owned a majority of the bonds). Heretofore election to A.P. required approval of four-fifths of the total membership, and a single member, by "right of protest," could blackball any candidate in his city, for any reason at all. This exclusiveness largely accounted for the rise...