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...running a hat shop in Manhattan. His books (Outline of the Future, The United Nations on the Way) reflected his strong belief in a world security system. ¶ At the Vatican: Catholic Humanist Jacques Maritain, who has recently advocated the formation of a strong, conservative party in France to offset French Communism...
...campaign entered its final week, more & more shouters appeared. National Tory Leader John Bracken, home from a monthlong tour of European battlefronts, was ready to stump for Candidate Case. Overseas, he said, he had found plenty of evidence that reinforcements were inadequate. He would tell the voters so. To offset his speeches, Navy Minister Angus L. Macdonald reportedly was rushing home from London. Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King himself leaped into the campaign again. To Grey North's voters he addressed two messages...
...their scramble for points, many of this season's well-tutored fives employ several different types of offense, and make split-second adjustments from one to another as the situation demands. To offset the fluid offenses, coaches have rigged fluid defenses, in which the players shift back & forth from zone defense to man-to-man, with variations. Even the old set plays have acquired delicate subtleties comparable to the different blocking assignments that give a football team half a dozen kinds of off-tackle plays from one basic pattern...
...minor part in the revolution. One of his main contributions was to substitute stainless-steel streamlining for the gas-jetted, Victorian corridors of the U.S. Steel headquarters at 71 Broadway. But Little Stet surprised oldtimers when he fought off a 1938 proposal that U.S. Steel cut wages to offset a drop in the price of steel. In a fireside chat, Franklin Roosevelt digressed to congratulate Big Steel on its "statesmanship." And Harry Hopkins, in his steady progress in U.S. society, had met and liked U.S. Steel's Ed Stettinius, had encouraged him to become a member of the Business...
...steel companies consoled their stock holders with the usual dividends, and a recital of unusual achievements. U.S. Steel upped its sales to a new high of $1.5 billion. But its $89 million sales increase was more than offset by higher costs. After paying taxes of $74 million (v. $79.5 million in 1943), the Corporation's nine months' net was $49.3 million against...