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Recruiting Office. In Elizabeth, N. J., County Judge Walter L. Hetfield put a would-be suicide on probation, indignantly pointed out the enormity of his offense: "This is no time to try to commit suicide when our country needs all its available manpower...
Production Tsar Nelson made it clear that he wanted no part of this helping-hand job for WPB, which had troubles enough already with war production. What he wanted for himself was a clear conscience when and if he has to commit mayhem on small business to take over its equipment and manpower. The U.S. has over 2,750,000 small businesses (fewer than 100 employes) with a total payroll of more than 8,350,000 people. Though only 169,000 are manufacturers, they all consume manpower-and manpower in the long run may well become the most compelling...
...special contingent of WAVES will arrive at Radcliffe within the next two months to set up the only Naval Supply School for women in the nation. Although Harvard and Radcliffe officials would not commit themselves last night, Captain Kenneth C. McIntosh, commanding officer of the Navy Supply Corps, who will probably head the new unit, confirmed the story...
Frank MacDermot, a member of the Eire Senate, now in the U.S., wryly admitted: "We claim an overriding right for Irish nationals to commit crimes of violence in British territory that would be punished with the utmost severity at home. The I.R.A. declare that we are at war with Great Britain, and we apparently agree with them to the extent of justifying unofficial Irish acts of war, but it is to be a new and improved sort of war with the violence all on one side...
...story goes that Itagaki wanted to commit hara-kiri after his disgrace, that his aides forcibly dissuaded him. The known fact is more characteristic of Itagaki. He did not spill his bowels. Instead he returned to Tokyo and shortly attained the highest post open to him: War Minister in the cabinet of Prince Fumimaro Konoye. Men in other armies concluded that he was a mere politician, a fixer, a conniver who throve on the favor of better...