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Frankensteen was persuaded to abandon Reuther, flop over to Addes' side; he was slated for a new office especially created: U.A.W. vice president. The radical element in U.A.W. was to be let alone. Communists in North American Aviation Corp., who two months before had engineered a wildcat strike (TIME, June 16) and defied U.A.W. and C.I.O. leaders, and whom the Reuther group wanted to hang and quarter, were to be given a thoroughgoing slap on the wrist. The whole program was to be labeled "harmony...
Listeners are pretty crotchety about any fiddling with the Hour. When NBC, in response to a few quibbles, ordered Announcer Mitchell to abandon his sally about Chicago weather, the kickback was prompt and potent. Mitchell continues doggedly to begin the Farm Hour with: "It's a beautiful day in Chicago...
...Comrade Stalin had more, and more bizarrerie, to come. Gulping another glass of tea, he proceeded to talk to his people as though they lived in a careless land, bird free. "The Soviet people must . . . abandon all heedlessness; they must mobilize themselves and reorganize all their work on new, wartime lines. . . . Further, there must be no room in our ranks for whimperers and cowards, for panic-mongers and deserters; our 'people must know no fear in the fight and must selflessly join our patriotic war of liberation...
...submarine's commander gave the Robin Moor half an hour to abandon ship. The passengers were roused. Three more boats were lowered. As the sun rose, after the boats were in the water, the submarine fired a torpedo into the Robin Moor amidships, shelled her for 23 minutes. She went wearily down by the stern...
...emergency may force the U.S., to all intents & purposes, to get along without Congress. The President then has to get things done by proclamation, by persuasion, by the use of his prestige, by indirection, subterfuge, circumvention. How to save Congress? Said Lippmann: by a gentleman's agreement to abandon the filibuster on questions of national defense and foreign policy during the emergency. "All that is required is that Senator Wheeler and Senator Nye and two or three others agree to debate their views on the floor of the Senate and then-without filibustering ... let the Senate vote...