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...those that fail. For two years he had the power for which many a President before him yearned-to reorganize the departments of the Government-but last January, when the Reorganization Act which gave him that power quietly expired at its two-year term, he had used it to shift only a few bureaus and make a few more jobs. Neither a key organization nor a key man had come out of the multiplication of agencies. No one had yet grown up out of the cutthroat tangle of confusion as had Bernard Baruch in World...
...Sidney Hillman announced last week a plan to end weekend "blackouts" in the defense industry, which President Roosevelt recently deplored. The Hillman plan was to put some industries on a four-shift, 160-hour week, rotating shifts and letting all share Saturday and Sunday overtime pay. The remaining eight hours of the week would be used for overhauling and repairing machines...
...faced the critics of his recent conduct of the war. Besides the action in Greece and Libya, the Battle of the Atlantic and the Battle of Britain, many, Britons have recently worried about the nation's war production. The Prime Minister had seen fit the week before to shift his ministerial backfield to spur production and transport (TIME, May 12), and now the British public hoped that these matters would have an airing...
...turned down by the late, great John McGraw because he was "too awk ward." But, like Gehrig, Greenberg was industrious, persevering, went on to be come one of the best first basemen in the game. After seven years at first base, Greenberg ungrudgingly agreed to shift to the outfield last year "for the good of the team" - to make room in the daily lineup for alternate Catcher Rudy York, a mighty batter. Greenberg's metamorphosis from star first baseman to star outfielder within six months was one of the outstanding baseball feats...
Bill Rothschild, a Junior, has replaced Andy Gaudielle in the number seven seat behind stroke Johnny Abbot, but otherwise Captain Seth Crocker's crew will row as of last week. As a result of this shift in recent time trials the Varsity lightweights have distincly improved over their previous performances against the Jayvees...