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That torrid little country (see map) is about the size of Missouri. Its capital, Berbera, is on the coast but has no port facilities. It has a municipal water system but no railway, no bank, no hotel. A coast road connects it through the secondary "port" of Zeila with Djibouti in French Somaliland which fell into Italy's hands in June...
Brandished before the board was a letter from William Bishop, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Dr. Keezer was the neutral member of the Railway Labor Board in Chicago, and as such decided some 60% of his 101 cases in favor of employers, 40% for the unions. Wrote Mr. Bishop: "He is the most biased . . . man I have ever come in contact with...
...Holland increased the butter ration from three to four ounces weekly and egg eaters received three to four more eggs monthly. Markets displayed fewer kinds and smaller quantities of green vegetables than last summer, but there were constant promises of shipments from Alsace-Lorraine. An average of 100 railway carloads of fresh vegetables arrived from Holland every day but most of these were sent into the Ruhr industrial district to provide additional vitamins for nerve-racked workers harassed nightly by British raiders. Bibulous Berliners, nourishing a long thirst in anticipation of cracking the enormous stocks of wine and champagne captured...
...Rugged, husky-voiced, audacious and experienced, Alfredo Navarrete is a conservative who is against political control of labor unions. He announced that his Syndicate, which claims 125,000 members, would break away from CTM (Mexican Confederation of Labor) and try to form a new Popular Front with 102,000 railway workers, 16,000 oil workers, 11,000 electrical workers, 8,000 sugar workers. He promised that his organization would be non-political and "free from radicalism"-free, that is, from the influence of Communists. Though there are only about 30,000 Communists in Mexico, the Party...
...word which Prince Konoye used last week in connection with foreign policy, Matsuoka once used of domestic-in an intuitive anticipation of the streamlined Government into which he was called fortnight ago: "Japan," he said as he assumed presidency of the monopolistic South Manchuria Railway five years ago, "cannot halt its North China operations. The arrow has already left the bow ... to carry through these operations a domestic renovation is inevitable." When he re signed from the S. M. R. last year because he could not tolerate Army interference, he declared: "If they would just let a businessman...