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Arnall himself came forward with a suggestion for transferring the albatross. He strode in to see Harry Truman, suggested that the President call Congress back into session to strengthen price controls. The President could call on Congress to reverse the "crippling amendments" adopted last spring with Republican support. Truman, who knows how to get votes out of a can of peas, promptly announced that he was "considering" such a call. That brought the inflation issue from the household arts and financial pages to Page...
Militant Woman. Not long ago such a pronouncement from Al Azhar would have put every veiled woman in Islam in her place. But it rolled off the arched backs of Egypt's feminists. Into the office of Egypt's new boss, General Mohammed Naguib, last week strode smartly styled Doria Shafik to demand a new deal for women. "You have broken the chains that bound the nation," she said, "and now . . . break the chains of the women who form half the nation...
Just after midnight of the third day, the vigil on Astor Street ended. The convention had spoken, and the nominee strode before the microphones on grandmother Bowen's veranda. His first words were for the reporters and photographers: "First let me say how much I regret the inconvenience that all of you newsmen have suffered." Then he turned to the subject of the hour: "... I have never been more conscious of the appalling responsibilities of the office. I did not seek it. I did not want it. I am, however, persuaded that to shirk it, to evade, to decline...
...Agriculture. The board sat down, for the first time this year, to the important task of estimating the nation's forthcoming cotton crop and updating the incomplete estimates on other crops. Just before 11 a.m., the big doors of the room swung open, and Chairman S. R. Newell strode across the hall to give newsmen the board's 1952 report. The news: The U.S. this year will have a near-record crop, probably surpassed in U.S. history only by the 1948 crop totals. Cotton (14.5 million bales) may be nearly 7% below last year's crop acreage...
Died. Mrs. Mildred Strode Vandegrift, 66, wife of General Alexander Archer Vandegrift, 65, hero of Guadalcanal, onetime (1944-47) commandant of the Marine Corps; after long illness; in Lynchburg...