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This was a showdown. The U.S. and Japan were nearer war than at any moment of their history. In a speech that was like a cry of pain and rage-and also of disappointment-Japanese Tojo called on his people to purge Asia of British and American exploitation...
Alumni, casting sentiment to the winds, tried to force Old Zup to resign, even offered him a $6,000-a-year pension. When he refused, they tried to have him ousted. Last summer, in a bitter showdown, Zuppke won over Athletic Director Wendell Wilson, head of the anti-Zuppke faction. Since then, it has been common campus gossip that the little Dutchman, his honor vindicated, would resign at this season...
...higher prices with partly crossed fingers. Leon Henderson has warned them to keep the lid on. When four north Texas producers last week posted prices 7? a bbl. higher (ostensibly to offset a differential with Oklahoma-Kansas prices), Leon stopped warning, "invited" the price lifters to Washington for a showdown...
...first experience was with U.S. Army Ordnance, to whom he thrice submitted bids on guns (75s and 105s), was thrice low man, was thrice turned down. The Army was suspicious of newcomers. When a Cohen emissary finally sought a showdown with a noted Army brass hat, he was told that Empire's last bid was $3,000 too high. Cohen produced the bid: it was $2,970 per gun. Flustered, the Army not only apologized ("typographical error"), but sent him across the street to the British, with an introduction...
...Chairman Fly does not work that way. For radiomen to digest over last weekend, he and a majority of the Commission (four of six) issued an amended set of regulations, to go into effect Nov. 15, on which FCC was obviously prepared for a showdown. Columbia Broadcasting System immediately signified its intention to seek an injunction against FCC in a Federal court. The battle was joined...