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Blunt, news-nosed Gene Howe is a colorful, individualistic publisher who is not averse to a bit of honest ballyhoo. Nobody outside the Navy-least of all a newspaper-had ever won a Navy E for recruiting, but Gene ("Old Tack") Howe's Amarillo (Tex.) Globe-News had one-gratefully awarded by the head of the Dallas naval recruiting district, husky Lieut. L. H. Ridout Jr., for recruiting a special squadron of 60 "Skybusters" (naval aviation cadets). Last week he lost...
Thus tested and proved last week was the comparatively new scheme to launch trains of gliders on the fly. In a war which has been a Pandora's Box of surprises in air strategy and tactics, U.S. ingenuity was off & away on a fresh, imaginative tack...
Thin, stooped, flop-eared Howard Worth Smith sits in big, comfortable chairs, and nobody puts even a small tack in them. Nobody could. As president of the Alexandria (Va.) National Bank, as owner of a money-making Virginia dairy farm, as organized labor's hair shirt in Congress, the 59-year-old Alexandrian serves what Virginians call The Organization -the "courthouse crowd" machine of Senator Harry F. Byrd...
...Virginia dairymen he favors a virtual monopoly of the Washington milk market.) His name has appeared on no major legislation, but in 1938 he put through the House 17 amendments to the Wagner Labor Relations Act; the Senate killed them. Half a hundred times he has tried to tack amendments on appropriation bills to bar funds to anyone paying dues to organizations for the right to work. Always defeated but never ruffled, Judge Smith kept on trying. In late April he missed by one vote getting a no-strike bill reported. He supported Franklin Roosevelt's foreign policy...
...will welcome complaints, but for the present, at least, there should be neither a Government nor a civilian Gestapo. Canada has miraculously managed to police its stores by volunteer groups of women, each noting down prices and violations in "Queen Elizabeth books." But the U.S. will try another tack. In Chicago, OPAdministrator Michael Mulcahy hastily discouraged women who offered to snoop...