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Vice Admiral Yoshijiro Hamada: "America's participation in the European war will automatically involve Japan. . . . Statesmen will try to prevent such a calamity, but the circumstances are beyond their control. There can be no settlement until Japan and America have a showdown...
...workers get lower hourly wages (although they may earn more in the course of a year) than men at comparable jobs in automobile factories. During September, factory hands in the zooming aircraft industry averaged 73.8? an hour, automen 94.9?. Last week in one factory U. A. W. forced a showdown...
Other C. I. O. left-wing unions loudly reaffirmed their loyalty to their "great leader." A great leader or a repudiated man, Lewis had become the biggest issue in Labor. This week, with its annual convention just ahead, a jittery C. I. 0. faced a showdown. There was little question about John Lewis keeping his promise to resign. The question was what would happen...
Harvard is struggling to keep its head above water in the modern football whirl and quite sensibly refuses to grab a life-preserver called subsidization. But there must be a showdown soon because Harvard wants to find a way to reconcile big-time and amateur football...
...spring of 1938 Hitler took Austria. In the fall of 1938 he conquered Czecho-Slovakia at Munich. In the fall of 1939 he took Poland. If Britain and France had not called for a showdown at that time he would not have attended to them until later. His next step would logically have been to carve himself an empire in that part of Europe which is mapped on the two following pages...