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Last year the Harlow regime was just getting underway, and stress was laid almost completely on fundamentals while the offense never really got rolling. This year a shift has been promised, and the wide open game which featured the Maryland teams which Harlow coached before he came to Harvard is expected...
...Theoretical capacity in the cotton-spinning industry is based on an 8-hour day, 5-day week. Addition of an extra shift sends production "above" capacity rating...
James Aloysius Farley last week transferred his base of operations from Washington to Manhattan, his job from part-time Postmaster General to full-time chairman of the Democratic National Committee (TIME, July 20). Three days before making this ectoplasmic shift for the duration of the campaign, he announced the appointment of Franklin D. Roosevelt's great & good friend Frank Comerford Walker, onetime head of the dormant National Emergency Council and Democratic National Treasurer in 1932, as active chairman of the Democratic National Finance Committee...
...will be the last drastic step needed to restore the Army to subordination after part of it got out of hand last February, tried to murder the Premier and for a time defied the Emperor. With infinite patience General Terauchi has scrutinized the records of innumerable officers, trying to shift into key positions those of whose loyalty the Throne can be sure...
...previous volumes. Red-faced, hard-drinking Charley Anderson barely appeared in The 42nd Parallel; Margo Dowling, dissolute and disillusioned cinema queen, makes her debut in The Big Money. Dos Passos' method is to follow one of his characters through some meaningful experience or period in his life, then shift to another. Between chapters he inserts the short biography of some real public figure whose career forms an oblique commentary on the imaginary character just described...