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...make sudden and drastic changes to India's administration of 352,000,000 semi-civilized people, with over 45 races with 225 languages, many religions, and diametrically opposed ideas, was-and to many people's minds still is-an impossibility; and that if there ever were cause for "the inevitability of gradualness," here is one indeed...
...even the most cynical politician suspected that Governor Stassen was trying to improve his chances for the 1942 gubernatorial election; he was a cold cinch for re-election anyway. But the statement spurred all three of Minnesota's parties (Republican, Democrat, Farmer-Labor) into sudden frenzy. If Stassen is re-elected and then goes off to war the following spring, the man elected Lieutenant Governor next November will be Minnesota's Governor within six months. And, though even cynics admitted that Governor Stassen's patriotism was perfectly virtuous, they also pointed out that that virtue might well...
...Administration was caught off guard. Why the sudden outcry? Washington thought the people were depressed by a succession of military defeats. It was even suggested that the outcry was a Nazi plot. Said WPB's Donald Nelson: "The Nazis do not like our production drive. The enemy is clever at this sort of thing. He has done it successfully before. He knows that this is his crucial test. Unless he can divide this nation now, he is licked...
Alabama. The sudden death of Bibb Graves (TIME, March 23), who had been certain to be elected Governor again, turned the primary from a formality to a fight. Five candidates who never had a chance now knew that one of them would win. Likeliest: Judge Chauncey Sparks, runner-up in the last primary...
...threat is especially great in the small colleges and universities, many of whose student bodies would be almost totally obliterated by a sudden stoppage of NYA funds. At harvard and the larger colleges, the direct effect is not so serious, but to the men who are in need of assistance, the money makes a great psychological difference. Few of the 340 men now working on NYA at Harvard would be forced to leave College if it were abandoned. Many of them, however, are given a valuable sense of certainty by signing a contract which assures them a certain...