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There, as in Seattle, he sought to prove that labor's great gains had begun under a Republican administration-with the Railway Labor Act of 1926. "There's no reason why our social trend should not continue. There's no reason except one-the New Deal-tired out, and too long in office. It distrusts people. It treats social gains of the Nineteen Thirties as its own private property. It wants to hold office forever in stalemated idleness. I say that social gains are not the property of any party...
...bargaining into political bargaining." He recited the 13-month struggle of railroad workers for a pay increase, after which "Mr. Roosevelt seized the railroads to forestall a national disaster which he himself had prepared. And after he did that he graciously gave the very wage increase to which the railway workers had been entitled for over a year...
Died. John Stewart Bryan, 72, scholarly publisher of Richmond's News Leader and Times-Dispatch, onetime president of the College of William and Mary, Harvard University overseer, Southern Railway director; of pneumonia; in Richmond...
...earthquake bombs, cut the dikes around Walcheren and flooded two-thirds of the island, Ontario troops led the way from Antwerp to the isthmus. They captured part of the town of Woensdrecht; for a time they held the road leading to South Beveland, and they brought the railway under artillery fire. But the Germans, still the masters of the prompt counterattack, struck swiftly with reinforcements from Bergen op Zoom...
...drive directly into Kweilin; they circled it to the south. But this made little difference; they were already in sight of their objective: driving the Fourteenth U.S. Air Force out of southeast China.* The Fourteenth still had four strips, now all doomed, east of the Hankow-Canton railway. Soon only the biggest of Chennault's planes will be able to reach the South China Sea, where in the first 19 days of September his B-24s alone had sunk 74,600 tons of Jap shipping. The hope of using Chennault's air forces to support the promised approach...