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...insistently as the cicadas in summer's dog days, stirring distrust and fear. Both national chairmen of the nation's major parties stood accused of dipping political fingers into the RFC's bottomless jampot. In the last decade, the U.S. could boast of an enormous stride forward toward racial tolerance and understanding. Yet in Illinois last week, a grand jury of citizens exculpated the men who led the ugly Cicero race riots, indicted instead a man who pleaded for justice...
...growing resistance of the colonial and dependent countries to aggression," the council explained smoothly, "constitutes a natural contribution to the cause of the preservation of peace." Without a break in stride, the China Peace Committee cheerfully changed its name to the "Chinese People's Committee in Defense of World Peace and Against American Aggression...
Then, without breaking stride, Blaik reversed his field. He went on to defend Big Football, the very influence which-by his own words-had done most to cause the cribbers to violate the honor system. Army football players, he said earlier, were "unbelievably fatigued" after hours of practice on the gridiron, and had to face the iron scholastic schedules of the Academy. Their high morale might, he suggested, have caused them to put success of the team above the reputation of the cadet corps. If he had been speaking solely as a professional coach, defending his way of life, this...
Charlotte's Observer, the biggest (circ. 138,183) daily in the Carolinas, is a newspapering nugget of gold that seldom glitters. Its news pages are a typographical mishmash, its editorial voice a whisper. Yet because in its leisurely stride it picks up every crumb of news in its territory, the 82-year-old Observer is one of the biggest profitmakers of its size...
B.V.D. and other underwear makers soon made up the sales deficit by switching to shirts and shorts, pajamas and other garments, but the classic B.V.D. one-piecer never hit its old stride again (last year U.S. males bought only 720,000 pairs). The Erlanger interests concentrated more & more on their basic spinning, weaving and finishing operations in the South, this year decided to get out of the retail business altogether...