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Since then his staff has taken up 209 labor disputes directly or indirectly affecting national defense and has settled 186 of them with scarcely any work stoppage. In the case of the Vultee Aircraft strike he had no warning that a walkout was imminent. He dropped the hint that public opinion might be aroused if both parties to the wrangle did not make up. Both parties have plunged into conference. At week's end the only other important strikes unsettled were a two-week-old fight in the Northwest, where a dispute between A. F. of L. sawmill workers...
Because of internal dissension over policy the Harvard Chapter of the Student Union did not join the walkout of over 100,000 students on 110 campuses staged throughout the country yesterday by the National organization in protest against militarization...
Herbert Witt, national executive secretary of the Union, said concerning the Walkout, "the decisive hour for American undergraduates is not approaching--it is here." In his call he specifically stigmatized as efforts to involve the United States in war the plan to train Canadian pilots on American soil, the proposed sale of "flying fortresses," and the recent dispatch of fifty naval destroyers for combat service in England...
...universal reticence of New England Chapters in joining the Walkout is caused by splits similar to that now in progress here. It points to the difference in attitude towards the war between the solidly non-interventionist mid West, South and West and the interventionist East...
...after he announced his "final" walkout on Wife Elaine Barrie, John Barrymore pulled himself together, joined newshawks and gawkers in front of Grauman's Chinese Theatre. Occasion: publicity gag for his forthcoming self-burlesque. The Great Profile. For years big-time filmfolk have documented Grauman's forecourt with their hand and footprints. It remained for Barrymore to lend his famous profile to the wet concrete (by way of plaster cast), oblige pressmen by pretending to put his face in it. Heckled by unsatisfied photographers, he dipped his classic nose, a timid cheek, more of the profile when...