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Next the powder went off under Crane himself. The president of the A.F.L. International Association of Fire Fighters sent him a telegram from Washington asking him to resign as the International's vice president. Crane with consummate audacity replied: "It is indeed unfortunate . . . that you see fit to indulge in petty politics . . ." He was suspended forthwith. But the New York local of the union seemed perfectly content to keep him on as its president...
External Pressures. In the U.S., many editors clamored for quick action. The Scripps-Howard papers fumed at the United Nations Economic and Social Council, in session in Chile, for not taking up the question of La Prensa. (The New York World-Telegram & Sun told the pussyfooting council to "get lost.") The Scripps-Howard Washington News offered its columns to La Prensa's editors or to any South American journalist who wanted to state La Prensa's case-a vantage point for argument during the current conference of Foreign Ministers of the American republics (see HEMISPHERE) in Washington. Syndicated...
...York World Telegram and Sun said last night that General Lewis B. Hershey, Selective Service Director, has proposed that college students now facing draft should be deferred through their next year if they are in the upper brackets of their classes or able to pass certain aptitude tests...
...editors of the Post . . . don't share this view . . . ; thus these sports pages will not carry points and selections." The World-Telegram and Sun also dropped points and selections, and sports editors as far from the crime as the Kansas City Star and the Nashville Tennessean announced they would give only local basketball scores over the telephone, lest gamblers be aided. The Milwaukee Journal stopped giving...
...that Wilson had previously made such an offer with the proviso that the man give the job his full time, but Labor had turned a cold shoulder. A labor spokesman said in effect that Wilson was a liar, no such offer had been made "by personal conversation, mail, telephone, telegram, wigwag or smoke signal...