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...Chairman Joseph J. Mansfield of the House Rivers & Harbors Committee, Franklin Roosevelt sent a stern reminder that he had not yet gotten action on his long-cherished St. Lawrence Seaway. The Seaway is now a $277,000,000 item in a $990,000,000 catch-all pork-barrel bill. Its prospects are not good. The bill is buried deep down in the House calendar, with a conservative Rules Committee sitting on its chest. If it ever staggers up, bitter, bespectacled Representative Alfred Beiter of Buffalo, N.Y. (who sees his home town as a deserted village if the bill is passed...
...grovel before the Japanese, but will utilize passive resistance." He added, however, that"... the moral factor is the dominating influence in this war, and it would make an immense difference if India and like countries were free." When he said this, he knew well that all India had ever gotten from the British was a series of double-crosses. During the last World War, India was promised "a greater degree of freedom." Then, at the Treaty of Westminster in 1931, the British conveniently forgot this promise, although they gave the virtual independence of dominion status to Australia, Canada, New Zealand...
...McNicol is chosen it will be the fourth year in a row that a backfield man has gotten the honor. Prior to Fran Lee, Joe Gardella and Torby Macdonald held the captaincy...
...early music, and music in small forms. The program for this Sunday is listed as "English Music from Earliest Times to the Present Day" by Stanley Bates, Composer-Pianist, and if Mr. Bates lives even part way up to his title, he ought to quash the ill-be-gotten notion that the English are not a race of composers...
...contact with big leaguers. And this, he claims, was "trying to mix oil with water." In 1918 he acquired a wife who objected to his wanderings from laundry to pressing, to shoe-cleaning, and shoes to baseball, with punches peppered over all. But by now, he says, "she's gotten used to it, though we still have to buy her silence by getting her tickets to the Harvard football games...