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Outside Ridgway's command, the services' program to abolish segregated units is moving more slowly: ¶ The Army, with 180,000 Negroes (12% of its strength), has abolished all segregation in basic training, but carefully divides the troops thereafter into white and Negro units. ¶ The Navy has about 20,000 Negroes-3.3% of its strength; more than half of them are assigned to the Stewards' branch (cooks, messmen) in which there are only six whites; there are but 27 Negro officers in the Navy, including one lone Annapolis graduate.* ¶ The Air Force, which...
...General Secretary of the State Council of well-meaning but pusillanimous Sultan Abdul Mejid. A sternly upright and able young man with compassionate and liberal convictions, Midhat was soon serving as a trouble-shooter in one tense corner after another of the sprawling Ottoman empire. His determined efforts to abolish slave labor, wipe out anti-Christian discrimination and establish schools and colleges went far to pacify Turkey's perennially rebellious Balkan provinces and to infuriate the Russians, who dreamed of a Balkan empire all their...
...Keep it up, '41," the Bureau urges in its nation-wide release. "Don't let your A. B. mean 'Abolish Babies...
...easy at first. At his very first formal faculty reception, his garage was set on fire by a pyromaniac. When he had to abolish Yale's traditionally boisterous Derby Day, a mob of students marched on his house, was turned away by a few firm words from the president. And wherever he looked, Yale's awesome operating deficit ($450,000 last year) was there to haunt...
...another contemplated faculty move, Theodore Morrison '23, lecturer on English and director of English A, disclosed last night that he was considering asking the faculty to abolish the "Committee on the Use of English by Students," of which he is chairman...