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...Negroes in the U. S., one-third swarm in industrial cities, two-thirds huddle on tired Southern soil. Proportionately they have three times as much tuberculosis and syphilis as whites, a maternal and infant mortality rate more than 60% higher. At birth a Negro baby can look forward to a probable life of only 47 years, compared to a white baby's 59. Herewith TIME tells the story of four attacks on this No. 1 public health problem...
When U. S. Steel's directors sit down to their monthly meeting at 71 Broadway -looked down on by the portraits of J. P. Morgan (Sr. and Jr.), Henry Clay Frick, Judge Gary, Myron C. Taylor, George F. Baker-no swarm of Manhattan newshawks waits outside the door. Their monthly meetings are devoted strictly to business, not to making publicity. The directors hear about broad company policies from their youthful, silver-haired chairman, Edward R. Stettinius Jr., keep up with production and sales operations by listening to tough-fibred, gregarious President Ben Fairless, learn about fiscal problems from their...
...base of dry, rocky hills. On the north they end at the shining waters of Monterey Bay, where coves and inlets penetrate, unseen until a watcher is almost upon them, between the level cultivated fields. At the height of the season the 4,500 pickers who swarm over these fields, to take from them their average annual yield of 500,000,000 heads of lettuce, seem diminutive and remote in the immensity of dark earth and bright green leaves, the hills...
Whereupon everyone else's fever went up. For on April 2 some 750,000 voters in Wisconsin will swarm to polling-booths in a Presidential primary, will then & there settle the political hash of GOPresumptives Arthur Vandenberg or Thomas E. Dewey. Senator La Follette last week had become "Good Old Bob," a man whom many new friends were trying to influence. Representing a rock-bottom (1938) legion of 353,000 Progressive voters in a wide-open primary, his nod might mean the difference between success & failure to hundreds of big & little shots...
...weeks the word had gone round that Middle-of-the-Road Premier Edouard Daladier might be slipping and perhaps the secret session would be full of banana peels. It lasted 31 hours, with only three recesses. Then journalists and an eager Paris crowd were permitted to swarm into the galleries. They looked down on a Chamber filled with good humor. Some Deputies greeted the crowd with handclaps, others waved to the galleries. Abrupt silence fell as the urns were produced. The Chamber was about to vote on the supreme issue of confidence-or lack of confidence-in the general conduct...