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...element in the nation's transport system the bus industry achieved official maturity in 1935 when Congress put it, along with trucking, under control of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Appropriately the interstate bus drivers went into the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. But interstate bus and truck lines are not yet within the moderating influence of the Railway Labor Act. Result was that with little or no warning, the country last week suffered its first major bus strike. The Railroad Trainmen called out 1,300 drivers on eight Greyhound lines serving 16 States east of the Mississippi...
Another paradox is that the Communist allies of Boss Prieto have been tentatively drawing nearer to the Catholic element in Leftist Spain by permitting young Catholics to join the Leftist youth organizations -hitherto 100% Marxist. This tendency the Spanish Lenin has especially denounced. Last week, appeared a third paradox, a manifesto issued by Rightist Generalissimo Francisco Franco as the civil war entered its 17th month: "Our victory will bring a healthy redistribution of wealth! We are carrying out a profound revolution of the social order, inspired by the principles of the Catholic church. The number of rich persons will diminish...
...estimates their cost at $4,000,000 each. Of their safety it says, "While their size makes them vulnerable in high winds when making ground contacts (which are no hardship whatever to airplanes-rather, an advantage), nevertheless, the impossibility of slowing an airplane down brings with it a certain element of risk not present in the dirigible...
...immortal," Miss Brittain said that the longer war was delayed, the smaller would be the chance of its coming at all. The success of European statesmen in preventing crises more serious than any that led to the World War from leading to another is the most hopeful element in the present situation...
This week, however, as the squad withdraws behind closed panels for the final big push, there is a definite feeling around Cambridge that the palm of victory will have a Crimson hue Saturday evening. There is, of course, a large element who predict that Harvard will get three times as many first downs, outrush by twice as much yardage, complete many more passes, and lose by one point in the last minute of play. And they have facts on which to base their case. But those who have watched the squad in its practices this fall and have seen...