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Since the separation from the combined M.I.T.Cambridge group, the University chapter has been using the old constitution of the combined organization. Last night the executive committee met and drew up a tentative draft of the proposed constitution which will be the basis of discussion at the membership meeting, tomorrow night...
Reveille! In Cincinnati, Noah Bass, arrested for draft evasion, explained he didn't read very much, didn't know a war was on, slept "most of the time...
...After old friend Schwellenbach warned against "cooling-off" and labor-draft legislation, the President asked Congress to pass both...
...long-range solutions to the nation's many problems were offered. Congress did pass the Case antistrike bill, but Harry Truman vetoed it. The Senate saved the country from one piece of ill-advised legislation when it killed the President's plan to draft strikers into the Army. Both houses passed a bill to streamline Congress. After one of their most earnest debates, they also set up an all-civilian commission to control atomic energy. Antilynching, anti-poll tax, fair-employment measures were lost in the weeds of filibuster...
...George's humor. "I am exactly 100% certain of his loyalty," wrote F.D.R. At the 1944 Democratic convention, when most smart politicians realized they might be nominating two Presidents, George latched on to Harry Truman and helped smooth his way to the No. 2 nomination. Then he helped draft the first speech for the vice-presidential candidate...