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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Minor Inconvenience. In New York City, the strikebound 10% were advised to use police boxes in a pinch. In Chicago, big businesses with perishable out-of-town orders put most long distance calls in the emergency (fire, flood, death) or urgent business category, got cut off occasionally when they started a supposedly desperate call with a windy "How's the weather out there?" Chicago suburbanites had their crises too. James Ruzek, who lives in dialless Berwyn, works in a struck plant in dialless Cicero, and has a worrying wife, sent his pet carrier pigeon flying home daily with...
...which her family lives. The table, two chairs, and a chest are gone, Yu laments. The water jar and crockery are smashed. There comes to mind the Communist high command's directive before the Communists withdrew: "To keep our troops fit... confiscate anything. . . . For firewood we shall use doors, windows, furniture. . . . Cooking vessels must be carried away. What can't be destroyed must be buried. . . . We must sacrifice for our sacred land of democracy and our president, Mao Tse-tung...
...Warsaw police station a veteran WIN (Liberty and Independence) fighter spoke what was in the minds of many. "There's nothing more we can do," said he. "I don't understand why the Americans insist on hoarding their atom bombs, instead of putting them to use. When they decide to bring them out, I'll be willing to fight again. Meanwhile, it's time to go back to work. I'm tired and I want to live with my wife, work in the daytime and sleep nights...
Charles A. Lindbergh, onetime America Firster, who used to make mind-our-own-business-and-stay-out-of-war speeches, raised his voice after long silence and plumped for "a consistent American policy toward Europe," i.e., full aid to all "peoples who believe in ... a way of life that is basically similar to our own." Observed Lindbergh: "We have destroyed Nazi Germany only to find that ... we have strengthened Communist Russia. . .. We must re-establish and protect the ideals we believe in. ... It may require the use of military force. But no necessary cost is too high...
Also lacking were a provisional constitution and a new name for the group, since, under College rules, they could not use the name of a national organization. Lee Marsh, intercollegiate director of AYD, who has been here for two days, affirmed that the local chapter would be autonomous, "deciding all its own policies...