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Always a Crisis. Congress had shown indecision and small courage, ducked unpleasant decisions (e.g., the draft law extension, fair employment practices, a minimum wage, OPA) when it could. The people of Mississippi were glad to send a mountebank back to represent them in the Senate for six more years. Congressman Andrew Jackson May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee and loudest voice in military matters, was accused of having aided wartime profiteers and chiselers...
...Authorized Selective Service to lower its draft age limits to take in only men aged 19 to 29 (the law would permit inductions...
Military power certainly still spoke with a mighty voice in the Big Four's draft treaties. In the four satellites east of the Stettin-Trieste line (Finland, Rumania, Bulgaria, Hungary) where the Red Army held control, Russia got pretty much what it wanted. In Italy, occupied by the U.S. and Britain, Russia had yielded to the Western powers on most points...
...Chicago, a committee of bigwigs of both leagues mulled it over, made a precedent-breaking decision: before they draft next year's uniform contracts (containing rules for individual player contracts), they will listen to grievances of player-spokesmen from all clubs. Probable first target of the players: the "reserve clause," which makes a contract binding on a player but allows a club to terminate it on ten days' notice. Other likely demands: a minimum salary ($5,000 or more) and a share in the profit when owners sell players to another club...
...although the editors still shudder at the quality of the first-draft copy that arrives at their desks during a four-day heat wave, TIME is organized to achieve at least a stand-off against the weather. Being city dwellers, our harbinger of the seasons is not the robin nor any of the age-old signs; it is the medical department. When one of our researchers turned up there early last month, sunburned, peppered with mosquito bites, black & blue from having fallen into a brook, nursing a finger blistered from picking daisies, we could be sure that summer...