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Labor-the job of finding workmen for arms plants-remains under curly-headed Labor Statesman Sidney Hillman, formerly half of OPM's Knudsenhillman...
...like many another sincere New Dealer, Rex Tugwell is no impartial statesman. He loves the people to beat hell, and he has a fairly simple blueprint of hell. As Governor of Puerto Rico, greyheaded Rex Tugwell went grayer for the Popular Democratic Party of his friend Muñoz Marin...
...delegates this week headed into committee problems ranging from subversive activity to post-war rehabilitation, they counted up the signs-good, bad, but never indifferent. As they did so a leading Latin American statesman, looking beyond the immediate necessity of a common American front against the Axis, expressed to a TIME correspondent an opinion that brought Bolivar up to date, and beyond...
...surface, but they have not yet been tapped. Coal is known to lie just under the surface, but it has not yet been mined. With all Sarawak's natural wealth, some of Raja Brooke's main sources of revenue are, according to the ultra-conservative Statesman's Year Book, "customs, the Government opium monopoly, gambling, arrack and pawn farms" (ie) the Government farms out licenses for gambling, the sale of distilled rum, pawning...
Said the liberal, keen New-Statesman and Nation: "At this point we face something even more unpleasant than incompetence. No one will complain that Penang was deliberately evacuated while there was time to withdraw its white inhabitants. But reports insist that its docks and its electric power station were left intact for the enemy's use [see p. 21] and subsequent denials only cover half the charges...