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Month ago an Arab bus in northern Palestine was fired on. In a nearby shed, British officers found three young Jewish Fascists, loaded with bombs, revolvers and rifles. British emergency regulations, prescribing the gallows for possession of arms, have been applied against Arab terrorists. Last week a British military court showed it could be equally stern with Jewish terrorists. The court condemned two of the young Jews to hang, sent the third to an insane asylum. Sole hope of clemency remained with Major General Robert Hadden Haining, commander of the British Palestine forces, who must confirm the sentences. If confirmed...
Dock workers, earning 16? to 18? an hour, asked 25?. Bus drivers, earning $5 and $7.50 a week, asked $10. Bus conductors, earning $2 and $3 a week, struck for $6.25. Street cleaners with top salaries of $5.22, asked...
...think September 15 is about right. Ducky is right about Gales Ferry (Yale's practice gridiron). The first time a fellow goes there he's thrilled. But the second and third times the boys are--well they don't hold back when it's time to climb into the bus and go to New Haven (where the college is located...
Jubilee-bound Freshmen who would benefit by a special bus service between Wellesley and Cambridge are urged to put in their requests to the Jubilee Committee at the desk in the Union. The Committee will also handle the corsage orders from the Yardlings...
...appropriate $72,000,000 for Federal aid to education in the coming year and raise the ante to $202,000,000 by 1944, embodies the recommendations of the President's Advisory Committee on Education (TIME, March 7). Because it would permit Federal money to be used for books, bus service and scholarships for pupils in parochial (e.g., Roman Catholic) schools, it is opposed by Catholicophobes, led by Columbia University's Professor George Drayton Strayer. Meanwhile, to drive the bill out of the hostile House committee, the American Federation of Teachers and Progressive Education Association held a national conference...