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Worse, the intervening four months had given the Axis, Japan in particular, time to use Madagascar for refueling submarines that prey on shipping through the 250-mile-wide Mozambique Channel between Madagascar and the African coast. German agents had filtered into the island to stir native resistance against the British. Japanese planes had scouted the territory unchallenged. The radio at Tananarive, Madagascar's capital, had kept up a steady chatter of Vichyssoise, inveighing against Britain, the U.S., Jews and De Gaulle, giving prominence to every Axis victory...
...same time combined earnings of 290 bigtime U.S. industrials dropped 35%. Moreover, the liquor industry may get "vacations" from war work to rebuild depleted stocks. Otherwise it might be out of business after the war while it waited for new whiskey to age. Thus, if this war does not stir up another wave of prohibition, distillers can count themselves lucky...
Five years ago labor leaders were doing their best to stir up discontent. Today that condition is reversed and almost every responsible labor leader knows he sits on a lid. The situation is so serious that the President has asked his No. 1 trouble shooter, Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, to suggest a plan for restoring mutual confidence before the pressure for wage increases blows price control sky high...
...said that Indian papers were hinting that he and other Congress leaders might be arrested. He waved his hand airily. "That wouldn't matter. I'd still be in their midst. Our arrests would stir everyone in India to do his little bit. Even the stones would arise. Stones can be nonviolent, you know," he said with a twinkle...
Pegler. The publishers were smoking mad at ''that archtraitor Westbrook Pegler." In his April 28 column Pegler had damned the two biggest Negro papers-the Pittsburgh Courier (circ. 130,000) and the Chicago Defender (circ. 83,000)-for exploiting the war emergency to stir up race issues among Negroes in the services. He called them "reminiscent of Hearst at his worst in their sensationalism, and in their obvious inflammatory bias in the treatment of news." In addition he indicted them for exploiting their own people with sucker ads (Luck's Genuine Magnetic Lodestones, $1, etc.), for scandalous...