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Only 493 students voted for retention of the all-male cheering section, while 2171 voted for abolition and 75 could muster no opinion. The grand total of 2739 votes comprised one of the largest in recent Council history...
...continuation of its efforts last year and over the summer to muster student support behind the United Nations, the University U.N. Council plans to expand its local, national, and overseas activities during the coming term...
...biggest congressional belt buckle was the tax reduction bill which Harry Truman had vetoed three weeks ago. Republicans had wrathfully introduced it again. They took another veto for granted. But they thought that by changing the effective date from July 1, 1947 to January 1948, they might muster enough strength to override the President. In the House, Speaker Joe Martin expected to ram the bill through early this week with better than a two-thirds majority, rush it along to the Senate...
...defend the U.S. homeland and to make a retaliatory attack, are six heavy bombardment groups and twelve fighter groups. None of them are at V-J day efficiency. The commanders who could once send 820 B-29s rumbling over Japan on a single strike, last month were able to muster only 101 for a practice raid over Manhattan. From a V-J day peak of 85,000 planes, the Air Forces are now down to 9,000 first-line aircraft, and 2,000 to 3,000 of them will pass over to reserve status each year...
...week Andy May was looking tired, old and sick. With the Garssons' own defense still to come, it would be at least a fortnight before the verdict was in. But Andy May's bluster was wearing thin. As the cross-examination wound up, the best he could muster was a threat to summon the full membership of his old committee, if necessary, to attest to his personal integrity...