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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bridges' union provided further proof of its party-lining last week in a new publication, Report from Europe, based on a rosy "rank & file" journey behind the Iron Curtain...
Presidential Military Aide Harry Vaughan, the White House court jester, made a terse, four-point reply: 1) he knew Hunt only casually, considered him a mere "file clerk who makes maybe $10,000 a year" (Vaughan's base pay as a major general: $8,800); 2) he knew there were "at least 300 people in Washington" in the same racket, selling their knowledge of Washington ways to businessmen who want government contracts; 3) he couldn't understand why people would "pick on a sergeant [i.e., Hunt, who was a wartime colonel] when at least two major generals...
Convicted traitor Mildred ("Axis Sally") Gillars asked a U.S. court why she couldn't get out of prison on bail now that the Government was letting convicted spy Judith Coplon "roam the streets unmolested." In Phoenix, Ariz., ex-Publisher John Boettiger filed a divorce complaint against the former Anna Roosevelt, charging extreme mental cruelty. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Boettiger announced that she would file one against him, charging desertion...
Union leaders heard that Gallagher was about to render a rather favorable decision. That would never do. The union's Communist leadership had been losing ground with the non-Communist rank & file. A peaceful settlement might undermine the militancy of the miners-and their leaders' position. They threatened to strike unless Gallagher granted all their demands. Considering this threat to be blackmail, Gallagher refused to hand down any decision until the strike threat was withdrawn...
Sloan-Kettering now has 2,300 chemical agents on file, and has already tested some 1,500. Six of them proved to have a good "differential effect" against one or more types of mouse cancer. A couple of dozen had some lesser effect. According to Dr. C. Chester Stock, head of the Division of Experimental Chemotherapy, this record is by no means discouraging. As the records and experience accumulate, the scientists are learning how to predict whether a compound is worth testing. If a new one has a slight effect, one of its close relatives may prove better. And each...