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Preparing for the convention in Chicago late in December to draft plans for the organization of a United States Union of Students along lines of the international Union, Cater recommended to the 15 Council Committeemen that a sub-committee should immediately be formed to draw up tentative plans for a Constitution of the national Union...
...East Harlem's workaday citizens, however, Marcantonio is the man who fought Lend-Lease and the draft-until Germany invaded Russia; the man who has repeatedly denied Communist leanings while faithfully following the gyrations of the party line. Tammany, the C.I.O.'s P.A.C. and the A.L.P. were all supporting little Marc for re-election-but that might not be enough...
...explanation, the chairman of the Committee has stated that matters have developed so that work on the final draft or drafts (two versions of disputed issues may be presented to the students for final decision) will begin soon. But not many meeting days remain before the five or six week deadline is reached. It is time the highly-regarded Student Council Constitutional Committee began to display the fruits of its labor...
...Amendment to the Full-Employment Bill, he would head one of the Senate's most influential groups. The price of Republican victory in the Senate would also mean the assumption of the Naval Affairs Committee chairmanship by South Dakota's Chan Gurney. Gurney, whose record includes supporting a labor draft, crippling of the Bretton Woods Agreement, and maintaining high tariffs, would replace present chairman Elbert Thomas of Utah, an outstanding progressive...
...House of Representatives, where a Republican majority is even more likely, such men as Joe Martin, Charles Eaton of New Jersey, and Harold Knutson of Minnesota would assume leadership. Martin, who would replace Sam Rayburn as Speaker of the House, is on record as opposing Lend-Lease, the draft, and its extension, while advocating a general reduction of taxes for a government whose economic realm has been tremendously enlarged by national emergency. Facing Martha Sharp in the 14th District here, he has opposed workable trade agreements, price-control, and even a federal program of hot lunches for school children...