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...case in point is the present "debate" on the President's Lend-Lease Bill. Here, in Chapel Hill, a small group of pseudo-pacifists have obtained strategic positions on the editorial staff of the official university paper, the Daily Tar Heel, and in the discredited and split but still Communist-dominated local branch of the American Student Union, and, by their editorials and handbills vociferously campaign against effective action in aid of the Allies while the rest of the university community sits by and does nothing...
World War II quaked her world, as all worlds. Fissures cracked labor; Communism split youth movements; wrath against aggressors blotted up pacifism. Some time ago Mrs. Roosevelt quietly resigned from the Spanish Rescue Ship Mission, withdrew from the American Youth Congress, apparently determined to withdraw from all Communist-tainted organizations. But Mrs. Roosevelt still had a smile for organized Labor. She spoke to a mass meeting of strikers of the Leviton Mfg. Co. plant in Brooklyn, said: "I am afraid I agree with you," thus helping to rouse a new surge of strike enthusiasm...
Back in 1932, in the course of a reallocation, the old radio commission assigned stations WWRL, WCNW, and WMBQ, a trio of aerial small fry from Queens and Brooklyn, to the same spot on New York's crowded band. It suggested that they split up their time as fairly as possible. Promptly the trio began to squabble, resorting to any device to make their chunk of time more profitable than their rivals'. Jam-packed with advertising, loaded with corny stuff, their programs brought little pleasure to the listening public...
...same meeting the original ten men were split into two groups, four to form the nucleus of the Smoker committee and six apportioned to the Jubilee committee. Six additional appointees were also named by Keith...
...five. All during the day he had been hearing vague rumors of troop movements, and after dinner he decided to go to a friend's house to get some definite news. He started out the door, but before he had taken many steps, the noise of a machine gun split the air; so he went back into the house and suppressed his curiosity for that evening. The next morning he learned that a man named Kerensky had overthrown the Czar's government and set up a republic. He didn't bother to go to the office...