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When Hawaii's 33 plantation owners balked, Bridges demonstrated in miniature what organized labor can do to a country's economy.* The continuing maritime strike on the West Coast (in the process of settlement this week) helped his cause. The islands, long a tourist paradise, depend for sustenance on seaborne traffic. Since the shutdown of Pacific shipping seven weeks ago, only three relief ships, sent by the Department of Interior, have reached Hawaii with vitally needed food...
...phenomenon, it is nevertheless true that under the impetus of the war-born Bill of Rights higher education in America has for the first time become genuinely democratic. For one single, brief instant of our history, the chance at a Harvard or a Yale education has suddenly ceased to depend on the financial resources of one's father. Much has been made in the sports columns of the nation of the appearance for the first time on a Yale varsity eleven of a Negro player and of the number of men on both teams whose names are not Anglo-Saxon...
Asking that progressives stand firm and "look to the next swing," James Loeb, national director of the Union for Democratic Action, told the Executive Committee of the Liberal Union last night that "while the present reaction was inevitable, its intensity and its duration depend on how well we prepare ourselves both programatically and organizationally to stop the sweep...
...there is an urgency in the need today that outweighs all negative factors. Already the mold of war is being shaped in the minds of men. To lie back and depend on press and radio, embassy and War Department to break down the barriers of militant nationalism is to invite that war. Students have greater responsibility than other members of society in promoting the international flow of ideas whch is the only basis of lasting peace...
...much does a rooster's success depend on his social position? At Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, Alphaeus M. Guhl and Don C. Warren, fowl scientists, sought the answer to this question, financially important to poultrymen...