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...site chosen was in virgin territory, some 200 miles north of Bombay and eleven miles from the nearest railway. It was on the vast estates of fierce-mustached, smoldering-eyed, trembling-lipped Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel, one of mild Saint Gandhi's wealthiest followers. As might be expected, this great mogul, scion of a rich Bombay family of landed proprietors, is no radical. He insists that "In accordance with ancient Indian tradition we must see that the landlord ever remains the father and guardian of his tenants!" But although he is violently opposed to the Socialistic tenets of many...
...Senate Commerce Committee. For the past two months he has held hearings on proposals made by Joseph P. Kennedy in his monumental report on U. S. shipping (TIME, Nov. 22) to amend the Maritime Act. Most controversial of the proposals is special maritime labor legislation modeled on the Railway Labor Act. Last week Dr. Copeland succeeded in stirring up a first-class...
...some success. Large Japanese forces were then found to be sweeping around their flank some distance inland, and neutral experts debated whether the 400,000 would be trapped, routed, or might succeed in withdrawing in good order. Although the Japanese flanking movement came mostly down along the Peiping-Hankow Railway, Chinese guerilla troops recaptured last week a 75-mile section of that railway in territory nominally "conquered" by Japan. Gloomy Chinese blew up the longest steel bridge in China to keep Japanese from crossing the Yellow River at Chengchow. In Shansi Province, to the West, Japanese columns were reportedly closing...
...union which has been the financial backbone of the C. I. O. is the (1 United Textile Workers, 2 United Woodworkers, 3 Brotherhood of Railway Conductors, 4 United Mine Workers, 5 Amalgamated Association of Iron, Tin and Steel Workers...
...best people, make mistakes. But seldom is any paper so unfortunate as was the exemplary New York Times last week. One morning the Times's sober obituary page carried accounts of two famed men who had died the day before, Fairfax Harrison, onetime president of the Southern Railway, and Engineer Dexter Parshall Cooper, father of Passamaquoddy's tidal-harnessing project. Each was illustrated with a picture. Unfortunately, the purported likeness of Mr. Harrison bore the easily recognizable features of John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, the picture of Mr. Cooper the features of famed...