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...ended the blustery, earnest career of the civilian chief of history's greatest navy. It was a career compounded in equal parts of Horatio Alger and Teddy Roosevelt. The Alger element marked the rise of a paper boy to waiting on tables at Alma College, to $150,000-a-year general manager of 27 Hearst newspapers in 1928, and then to publisher-owner of the huge (412,148 circ.) Chicago Daily News in 1931. The Rooseveltian half of his life began in the Spanish-American War, when young Knox got a bullet hole through his hat and a "Bully...
Whirling Turk. Vacillating Turkey vacillated again. Turkish chrome is a vital element in ball bearings, many other steel products. Of late it has moved to Nazi-land in increasing tonnage. Last week Turkey's Foreign Minister Numan Menomencioglu hardly took time to read an Allied protest before calling in the correspondents for a bout of oil-slick doubletalk. Said he: "I had an interview today with the British and American Ambassadors (Sir Hughe Montgomery Knatchbull-Hugessen and Laurence Steinhardt). They each gave me a note and we exchanged views in the most friendly spirit ... of collaboration which characterizes...
...were tops. A friendly Administration in Washington. All sorts of favors fed to you daily from the Washington political table. Management weak and intimidated. So what did you do with your power? On the economic side you gave yourselves a labor boom, regardless of the consequences to any other element in the population. On the moral side you produced men like Browne and Bioff and Scalise who gave all labor a black...
...technical decision still went to OPA Boss Chester W. Bowles. His OPA had fought the vitamin barons last November, threatening them with an order that would cut retail vitamin prices 15%. Producers argued that there was no inflationary element in their prices; OPA's order was illegal; it was profit control rather than price control. OPA never formally issued the order, but the industry nevertheless sought a court injunction against the possibility. When the injunction was denied, the industry filed an appeal. The problem was still in the courts when the voluntary price reductions began last week...
...Australia Douglas MacArthur, whose forces are some 350 miles nearer Manila than Nimitz' carriers, warned that sea blockade and bombardment alone could not defeat Japan. Said he: "The strongest military element of Japan is the army, which must be defeated before our success is assured. This can only be done by the use of large ground forces. . . . [Japan's] outlying islands of the Pacific represent an outpost position, important, it is true, but no longer decisive...