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Over all the Army and Navy Munitions Board stood, exercising military priority rights. And at the President's side Harry Hopkins worked as liaison man with the British, again affecting priorities. In the background stood Bernard M. Baruch, the single chief of priorities in World War I, warning with the voice of experience that single control was essential if the U.S. is to be successfully armed...
...impressive ceremony. The old town of narrow streets and pleasant front yards, the noonday sun bright on the shiny cars, on the people, as dressed up to see the President as if they were going to church-all this made a background for the President's words, as fitting as the words themselves. From Charlottesville, where he had been resting in "Pa" Watson's three-roomed guest house, the President had motored along the ridges above the Shenandoah Valley, through miles of green pine and spruce, past miles of mountain laurel and white dogwood. At the dead...
Harvard students, especially residents in this state, should participate in the sessions in Boston, make the contribution of which they are capable and profit from association with other young people of varying background and creed. Further information concerning program, speakers, etc., may be secured from the Massachusetts Youth Council, 38 Chauncy St., Boston, Devonshire 8860. Lawrence Shubow...
...current in so much of the discussion by the man-in-the-street. Above all, it may prove a last encouraging refuge if the day comes when America stands alone. Thoroughly understood in its fatal deficiencies as preacher of one decision, it should do much good as a factual background for any decision...
Young Cotton Ed's request was backed by a letter, signed by twelve of the committee's 20 members: "To remove a clerk with the experience and background that he must have . . . would greatly impair the effectiveness of the committee work and retard general progress in vital legislation. . . . It is the desire of the committee that Mr. Smith be deferred." Signers included Isolationist Burt Wheeler, Nebraska's liberal George Norris, half a dozen brother Senators of Senator Smith (but not old Cotton Ed). Three of the signers (like old Cotton Ed) had voted against the Selective Service...