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Legislative lobbies: 1 all manner of farm relief; 2) inland waterways; 3) protection of organized labor. For years he sponsored a bill to curb Federal injunctions in labor disputes but not until he turned the legislation over to Nebraska's Norris did the Senate finally pass it last fortnight...
...snowing on the northern peninsula of Michigan one afternoon last week. At the vast deserted quarries of Inland Lime & Stone Co., 8 mi. from Manistique, a small group of men-Army & Navy observers, men from the Bureau of Mines and the Coast & Geodetic Survey, quarrymen, photographers - huddled under a line of steel freight cars. No other humans should have been within a mile of them. The occasion was dangerous. The military men said that during a heavy explosion it was best to stand on one's toes with the mouth open. The concussion then had less effect...
...announced Sir John's peace proposal meant little to the Chinese and Japanese in the line. Twice in 24 hours Chinese and Japanese troops swept back and forth across Chapei's Paitse Bridge. Japan threatened to carry bombing operations 50 miles inland if further Chinese reinforcements arrived. This would mean bombing the richest paddy fields in China, between Shanghai and Nanking. Shanghai's defender, pale scholarly General Tsai Ting-kai risked it. Thirty-nine years old, he boasts that this is his 170th military campaign...
...cartographical blind spot had been filled in with 600 miles of burning sand. An "unprecedented suspension of blood feuds" among the Arabs, due to Bin Sa'ud's benign but determined autocracy, made the journey possible. From the coast of the Arabian Sea, Explorer Thomas sent inland two Rashidi tribesmen to collect camels, men to conduct him over the Qara mountains to the desert's edge. Shaikh Salih went ahead to organize a relay, prepare the desert ways. So well did he prepare them that the final dash through enemies' territory passed without hitch or hobble...
...Chargé d'Affaires William J. McCafferty in San Salvador was genuinely alarmed last week. A Communist army had risen in three Pacific Coast provinces, attacked the towns of La Libertad, Ahuachapan and Sousonate, moved inland and was fighting for Santa Tecla, only eight miles from the capital. Telephone lines had been cut, railroads torn up. San Salvador was threatened next. Chargé d'Affaires McCafferty was familiar with Central American revolutions led by generals or politicians. He had failed to get excited when such a revolt overthrew the Salvador Government two months ago, set up a military...