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...dishes" side-offer, similar to John L. Lewis' portal-to-portal stratagem. The 350,000 men in the five strike-threatening big brotherhoods, the 1,100,000 men in the equally dissatisfied 15 nonoperating brotherhoods, watched the White House closely. So did the 135 million U.S. citizens who depend on the rails. As the week began, Franklin Roosevelt made the national sentiment clear: a railroad strike is unthinkable...
...Jimmie' Johnson's place in jazz history does not depend on Fats Waller. Back in the early '205, when Jimmie made countless pianola rolls for the old Q.R.S. company, his powerful perforations were idolized by the most genuine, undiluted barrelhouse pianists and their admirers. Today he is regarded among them generally as the noblest professor of them...
...said. But as they began the Big Three would be driven no less than lesser men by the compulsions of History-past and History-present. Plainly, the first question which history poses to Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill, the one on which the other answers all depend is: How to defeat Germany most swiftly...
Egypt's ambitious Anglophile Premier Mustafa El Nahas Pasha, an active champion of an Arab federation, reprimanded Algiers. To captive President Khoury, Egypt's King Farouk sent a message: "We are sure the Lebanese will secure their independence. [They] can depend on our friendship in this critical hour." Syrian, Egyptian and Iraqi Arabs stirred angrily...
...Most of the German people are now thoroughly weary, willing to buy peace at any reasonable price. But these Germans are totally in the power of other Germans who have no such reason for quitting, whose very lives depend upon sustaining the fight...