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This week, five days after the election, grizzled WLB Chairman William Hammatt Davis, 65, sent his resignation to Franklin Roosevelt. Promptly, two other public members of WLB, George W. Taylor and Frank P. Graham, followed suit. The difference between their action and all the customary tongue-in-cheek resignations which fluttered down, as usual...
Tongue in cheek, Moscow Correspondent Paul Winterton cabled London's News Chronicle: "With that spontaneity which is such a happy feature of the Persians at their best, 20,000 people demonstrated in the streets of Teheran, called for the resignation of the Said Government." There were other demonstrations in the northern section of Iran, occupied by the Red Army since...
...Ordered the Army to take over and operate the plants of the Farrell-Cheek Steel Foundry Co. at Sandusky, Ohio, where 600 employes have been on strike since Sept...
...vignettes of Texas. The elements of this story are a few dingy streets, a beerhouse, a room filled with "the winter day like dirty water," and five principal characters: a gawky young Texas artist; an aristocratic student from Heidelberg with a freshly gashed dueling scar on his cheek; a wolfish but pathetic landlady; Polish pianist; a browbeaten, impecunious professor of mathematics. Out of these Author Porter has carefully built a somber, horrifying picture of a country on the verge of tragedy - a leaning tower ready to fall at the touch of a strong hand...
General Charles de Gaulle sent a telegram to his onetime colleague on the Committee of National Liberation, General Henri Honoré Giraud, who had been shot in the cheek outside his villa near Oran by a drunken Senegalese sentry. The shot broke several of Giraud's teeth. General de Gaulle called for a "thorough examination" of the "outrage...