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When Wisconsin's long-ailing Progressive Party died of malnutrition last spring (TIME, March 25), Progressive Senator Robert M. LaFollette hastily jumped back to the Republican fold. Wisconsin's old line G.O.P. stalwarts cried that he was just a New Deal wolf in ersatz wool. Republican State Chairman Tom Coleman began stringing barbed wire at the political water holes, vowed to keep the last of the LaFollettes off the G.O.P. ticket...
...purpose of the new departmental structure, Professor Haertlein said, is two-fold: to combine under one faculty for undergraduates and graduates all electric's and communication engineering, formerly under a combination of Arts and Sciences and Engineering Faculties; and to discourage specialization below the graduate level by students interested in all kinds of engineering...
...Student Council has acted promptly in appointing a special committee and giving it the powers necessary for effective work. Already plans are being made to initiate a three fold program. The Committee has appealed to all students and employees of the dining halls to cooperate in eliminating food waste. No one who has observed the preparation of meals and the enormous amount of leftovers will belittle the saving to be effected in this way. But even further, the Harvard Food Relief Committee hopes to work out proposals with. University officials whereby actual contributions of food or money will be turned...
Party. When Gandhi began to turn the party, once the sounding board for polite talk about independence among a few cautious Indian leaders, into a powerful mass movement, Jinnah drifted out of the fold. Some Hindus think he lost his nationalist ardor when he lost his beautiful Parsi wife (he was 42, she 18, when they were married) after their only child, a daughter, was born. His wife had been a zealous worker for independence...
...this month, the Commission will open bids for the fastest merchant vessels ever built in the U.S.: two 670-ft., 28-knot, 543-passenger liners. It is also busy reconverting the P-2s, originally built as Navy troop carriers, for private shippers. Their cabins, in which the beds neatly fold into the bulkhead (see cut), will carry tourists more comfortably-and probably more cheaply-than prewar ships...