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Ohio. P.A.C. failed to push Ohio into the Democratic column; it was even unable to boost F.D.R.'s Cleveland plurality to its 1940 figure of 138.000. P.A.C. had concentrated on Senator Taft. His statewide plurality was kept down to 22,000 against a weak candidate (from a high of 170,000 in 1938). But not even this was a clear-cut accomplishment for P.A.C.; Bob Taft's isolationism had definitely hurt...
...lined up a potent phalanx of publishers-Charles Scribner's Sons, Little Brown & Co., Book-of-the-Month Club and Harper & Bros.-to meet the Field invasion. Along with Random House, they had purchased slipping Grosset & Dunlap, Inc., which specialized in cheap reprints. The syndicate planned to boost Grosset & Dunlap back to the top. As a starting booster, they plucked short, chunky John O'Connor, 52, out of his job as vice president of Chicago's Quarrie Corp. (World Book Encyclopedia), this week put him in as the new boss of G. & D. An old hand...
Freshman participation in all undergraduate extra-curricular activities will be given a boost tonight at the Activities Meeting to be held at 7:30 o'clock in Phillips Brooks House...
...Boost buying power by lifting all taxes, i.e., income and excise from those earning $15, or less, a week...
...this would go down easily with most businessmen. But there was a bitter pill: Hopkins would boost the present wage-&-hour-act floor under wages from 40? an hour to "at least 50? and subsequently 60? an hour." (After the article appeared, Florida's Senator Claude Pepper drafted a Senate resolution to give the War Labor Board power to raise the floor to 65?.) This, said Planner Hopkins, smoothly ignoring all hold-the-line thinking, should bring approval from "enlightened businessmen." It would steady consumption "during the transition to peace...