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...after he had ordered Government seizure of the rails, President Truman picked up his telephone. Once before, in the last half hour, he had talked with two men in Cleveland who could prevent the awful smash: Alexander Fell Whitney, the big-jawed, well-tailored president of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen (211,000 members) and Alvanley Johnston, the crotchety Grand Chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (78,000 members). Now he talked again, and this time-just 26 minutes before the strike deadline-he got a promise. The strike was off, for five days, and the Messrs. Whitney & Johnston...
...other parts of Brazil, the anti-Communist drive continued. The Government, in breaking up a strike against the Leopoldina Railway staged by $25 a month firemen, blamed the work stoppage on Communist "millionaire Luis Carlos Prestes." Brazilian democrats hoped that heavy-handed Dutra, in stamping out Communism, would not also crush democracy...
Shumei Okawa, onetime Manchurian railway official, carried comic indifference into broad buffoonery. He-interrupted proceedings by opening his crumpled shirt and rubbing his scrawny chest. Although a U.S. lieutenant colonel was assigned to watch him, Okawa slyly outwitted him, twice darted from his chair to smack startled Tojo's gleaming pate. Let out of court for a sanity test, he babbled in high-pitched English: "I don't like the U.S.; America is democrazy...
Leipzig's great railway station was smashed and burned in the bombings, but its charred walls were hung last week with red bunting, evergreen boughs and Socialist slogans. Tens of thousands of Germans, transported on 95 special trains, poured through it to Leipzig's first fair since 1941. Other Germans came, as visitors to the Leipzig Fair had come 700 years ago, by horse & wagon and a foot...
...Does the "Harvard look" make then edge away or give your foot an extra trampling? How does the man under the street feel about Harvard men as his fellow handle clutcher? Over the roar of awaying cars, 25 travelers of the tunnels of the misnamed Boston Elevated Railway aired their views on their scholarly fellow passengers yesterday...