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Same day President Roosevelt sent a formal message to Congress asking for the kind of bill his military leaders recommended, asking also that Congress take immediate action on the stopgap May-Bailey bill. In a joint letter Marshall and King once again backed...
...Stopgap. Though Hitler had his officers under control, he still had the problem of keeping them serviceable; he would shoot a general if he must, but he would use the man if he could. He had worked systematically to infiltrate 100% Nazi officers into key military commands. But with the present crisis in bloom he could sense the morale-shattering effect of introducing any young Nazi upstart as Chief of the Army General Staff...
George Papandreou (rhymes with hey you) had left occupied Athens less than a month ago (TIME, April 24). Premier Sophocles Venizelos had turned out to be a stopgap, bedeviled with mutiny, and he stepped down the minute he caught sight of the dynamic newcomer. Unable to form a cabinet right away, energetic, 56-year-old Mr. Papandreou ruled alone. He uttered such firm, authoritative commands that Cairo Greeks first blinked, then cheered. Said the man from Greece, a one time disciple of Sophocles' father, the late, great Eleutherios Venizelos: "Our watch word shall be one nation, one government...
...knotty coal problem. The need for coal continued to increase; its production kept on declining. Now tubby, furrowed, bespectacled Labor Minister Ernest Bevin proposed to send civilian and military conscripts selected by lot into the mines. This, the members recognized, was no solution. At best it was a desperate stopgap effort. It might produce more coal; it would also create more dissatisfaction. At week's end the first lottery drawing for the draft was postponed...
Meanwhile the Aeronautical Mechanics' Union okayed an increase in the work day from eight to ten hours, but its membership voted it down. This jeopardized a stopgap measure Phil Johnson was promoting: a five-hour shift for housewives to cover the gap between two ten-hour shifts. Probability: Flying Fortress production will continue...