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...that every auto plant in Detroit is geared to war production, last week held his first press conference. It was unexciting. Said Mr. Kanzler: "I am here only to serve as the catalyst"-which meant, said hard-boiled newspapermen, that he would be the gadfly to spur dunderheaded laggards into speedup. Much of the U.S. public had expected Kanzler to announce resoundingly that the automobile industry would forthwith be converted to defense. But Detroit knew that the industry was already converted...
...this will have to be unlearned, if there is to be an objective peace, based on freedom, and enforced with justice. The very forces which are calculated to spur us to victory can destroy what we have been fighting for, after...
During the interim between the two illustrated talks, Maynard Miller '43, president of the Club, and Andrew Kauffman '43, vice-president, revealed plans for a Club bulletin and for some needed repair work on Spur Cabin, the Club's outpost in the White Mountains...
Until he ran for Councilman, on a spur-of-the-moment decision, he had been only a sideline politico. His campaign amazed Manhattan politicians. With no machine support, he ran third among six Councilmen elected in New York City. Helpfully, he mailed 200,000 sample ballots to voters, showing how to mark the complicated proportional representation ballot. In Harlem, which gave him some 50,000 No. 1 votes, there were fewer spoiled ballots than anywhere else in the city...
Singora to Singapore. Dopesters in London guessed that although the British would fight hard in the extreme north, they would probably not send heavy reinforcements up, but would fall back into central Malaya, to insure themselves against being cut off by a cross-country spur from Kuantan. As for the defenses of Singapore itself, they had. as yet, no qualms...