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Little Assembly. The Interim Committee ("Little Assembly"), which functions while the Assembly proper is not in session, has recommended that its life and work be continued "for a further period to be determined by the Assembly." Russia has boycotted the Little Assembly, will doubtless fight the proposal...
...that time Laboraties Director Stanley S. Stevens remarked: "I am not at all anxious to move." Speculation grew during the course of the spring on the University's attitude toward the Alumni Committee scheme. Then in the April 24 interim report to the public Committee Chairman Saltonstall cast official doubt on the plan with the statement that investigation had disclosed "these memorials could not be constructed except for a sum considerably above" the specified $750,000 limit of a memorial fund-raising drive. The latter "ceiling" was alleged to stem from the concurrent existence...
This week the committee issued an interim report on its work and pursued new leads. After a long hunt for him, it caught up with J. Peters, a man with a Groucho Marx likeness who, Chambers said, was the Communist underground boss who introduced him to Hiss. Confronted by Chambers and asked if he knew him, Peters refused to answer on the grounds that he might incriminate himself. He gave that same answer to some 30 other questions. But he did admit that he knew Earl Browder...
Kaiser had another complaint. White had refused to let Kaiser set foot on his new property until after midnight Aug. 31 (when Republic's interim lease expired). WAAdministrator Larson confirmed this. White, he said, had told him: "It's going to give me a lot of pleasure to make it tough for those bastards...
...Charlie White decided to stand pat. Larson offered the plant to Republic for $2,500,000 a year and White turned him down flat. Larson then offered to arbitrate the price but White refused. Then, early this month, White played some aces. With only a few weeks for his interim lease to run, he threatened to shut off production unless "satisfactory arrangements" were made by the Aug. 31 expiration date...